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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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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.
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I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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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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Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
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They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.
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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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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.
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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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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The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
William Golding
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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