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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
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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.
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The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep but not at the price of falling to it.
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The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
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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.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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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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What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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