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
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 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 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
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to… — 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
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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