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
diverse
For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
listening literature
Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
rushdie
I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
moving fall journey
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.
beast lord
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
slipping world lord
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
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.
adults
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
teeth movement lord
There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
who-cares care
The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?
wheels lamps bus
What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
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.