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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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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.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
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Are we savages or what?
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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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.
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.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
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Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
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For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
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His mind was crowded with memories memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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You'll get back to where you came from.
William Golding
