People don’t help much.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI hope my books make statements about our general condition.
More William Golding Quotes
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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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.
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Of the authors writing in English, I’d mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I’m afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
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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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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.
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Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That’s what you could say about it.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
WILLIAM GOLDING