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
William Golding quotes about
beast lord
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
language fit jackets
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
laughter language
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
life memorable feet
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
memories struggle taken
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
slipping world lord
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
inspirational life art
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
passionate ease opinion
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
law lord piggy
Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
adults
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
frowning mazes lost
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
blow animal fire
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.
savages
Are we savages or what?
news beast horrible
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.