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 GOLDINGThis is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
More William Golding Quotes
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
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The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
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I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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