When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very… — William Golding Copy Share Image
You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“My darkness reaches out and fumbles at a typewriter with its tongs. Your darkness reaches out with your tongs and grasps a… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The whole book is posing a question. You think you've won a war - what you've done is finish a war. There… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there… — William Golding Copy Share Image
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that… — William Golding Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody… — William Golding Copy Share Image
One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“There have been so many interpretations of the story that I'm not going to choose between them. Make your own choice. They… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I stood, in shame and confusion, seeing for the first time despite my anger a different picture of Evie in her life-long struggle to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop… — William Golding Copy Share Image
