Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I think women are foolish to pretend that they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into… — 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
A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will… — 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
The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“You never loved me, nobody never loved me. I wanted to be loved, I wanted somebody to be kind to me -… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill;… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“You wouldn't care if I was dead. Nobody'd care. That's all you want, just my damned body, not me. Nobody wants me,… — 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
