William Golding
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding CBEwas a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 September 1911
wise thinking trouble
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
who-cares care
The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?
learning science discovery
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.
forgiveness given
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
wheels lamps bus
What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
fool
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
white lord fragments
the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
redemption vastness may
It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
hunting law rescue
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
mad long utopia
How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
tall-trees get-back
You'll get back to where you came from.
bicycle english-novelist fall journey life man point riding stop stops
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.