The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with… — 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
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… — 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
I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very… — William Golding Copy Share Image
While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages. — 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
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close!… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes… — 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
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
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