William Golding Quotes - Page 4

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• I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.

  William Golding

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

  William Golding

  Strong, Children, School

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• It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

  William Golding

  Majesty, Redemption, Vastness

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• Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range of the novel, and you will find it is biography. The only difference between one example and the other is that sometimes it's a partial biography and sometimes it's a total biography. Clarissa, for example, is a partial biography of Clarissa and a partial biography of Lovelace. In other words, it doesn't follow Lovelace from when he is in the cradle, though it takes him to the grave.

  William Golding

  Differences, Example, Roles

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• The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

  William Golding

  News, Beast, Horrible

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.206, Penguin

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• You'll get back to where you came from.

  William Golding

  Tall Trees, Get Back

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.154, Penguin

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• How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

  William Golding

  Long, Mad, Utopia

  William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.197, Faber & Faber

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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.

  William Golding

  Life, Memorable, Feet

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.101, Penguin

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• There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.

  William Golding

  Teeth, Movement, Lord

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.156, Penguin

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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.

  William Golding

  Character, Mean, Views

  William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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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.

  William Golding

  Writing, Thinking, Unique

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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

  Wine, West, Fantasy

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• Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!

  William Golding

  Baby, Useless, Cry

  William Golding (1959). “Lord of the Flies”, p.59, Penguin

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• the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

  William Golding

  White, Lord, Fragments

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.131, Hamilton Books

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• Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

  William Golding

  Mean, Knows

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.118, Penguin

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• Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.

  William Golding

  Men, Paper, Biographies

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• While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

  William Golding

  Hands, Discipline, Matter

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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.

  William Golding

  Men, Artist, Two

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.220, Penguin

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• Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.

  William Golding

  Two, Laughing, Effort

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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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.

  William Golding

  Flower, Islands, Air

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• I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.

  William Golding

  Play, Names, Numbers

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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.

  William Golding

  Jobs, Writing, Bird

  William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.139, Faber & Faber

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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

  Fear, Fall, Sleep

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• I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.

  William Golding

  Long, Fundamentals, Paper

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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.

  William Golding

  Awful, Honestly, Contemporary

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