William Golding Quotes - Page 6

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• A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.

  William Golding

  Stars, Movement

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• And I've been wearing specs since I was three.

  William Golding

  Three, Asthma, Specs

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.14, Penguin

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• Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is not the English spoken in England or in America or even in Canada or Australia or New Zealand. The real English is the English which is a second language, so that it's rather like Latin in the days of the Roman Empire when people had their own languages, but had Latin in order to communicate.

  William Golding

  Real, Latin, Order

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• The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.

  William Golding

  Hair, Water, Rose

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.281, Al Manhal

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• If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.

  William Golding

  Animal, Blow, Fire

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.72, Penguin

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• Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.

  William Golding

  Method

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• I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.

  William Golding

  Thinking, Might, Metamorphosis

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• My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

  William Golding

  Father, Play, Musical

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• What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?

  William Golding

  Lamps, Wheels, Bus

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.123, Penguin

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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.

  William Golding

  Writing, Thinking, Community

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• The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.

  William Golding

  Novelists, Toronto, Alive

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• Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.

  William Golding

  Thinking, People, Young Writers

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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.

  William Golding

  Islands, One Direction, Views

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• Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?

  William Golding

  Horse, Fire, Galloping

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.144, Hamilton Books

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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

  Country, Thinking, Healthy

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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.

  William Golding

  Drama, Successful, Television

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• Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.

  William Golding

  Cutting, Pigs, Blood

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.56, Penguin

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• They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

  William Golding

  Hate, Literature, Baffled

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.71, Penguin

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• I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

  William Golding

  Thinking, Language, Nigeria

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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.

  William Golding

  Sweet, Morning, Air

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.75, Penguin

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• Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an imperial parallel with English breaking down into, shall we say, North American, European, Australian, and so on. On the other hand, there is this immense, inward-driving influence of radio and television that is bringing us all back together. One could say it's a fight between the two: a fight between regionalism and the standardization through communication.

  William Golding

  Latin, Communication, Fighting

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• I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

  William Golding

  White, Australia, India

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