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As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
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This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
William Golding
I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
William Golding
Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
William Golding
I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.
William Golding
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
William Golding
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
William Golding
We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
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I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either. Piggy paused. Unless— Ralph moved restlessly. Unless what? Unless we get frightened of people.
William Golding
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
William Golding
I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.
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For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.
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I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
William Golding
I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
William Golding
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
William Golding
I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.
William Golding
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.
William Golding
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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