Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI 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.
More William Golding Quotes
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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The rules!” shouted Ralph, “you’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.
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We’re not savages. We’re English.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
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We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.
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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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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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