Top 30 W Golding Quotes
#2. I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
William Golding
#3. If faces were different when lit from above or below
what was a face? What was anything?
William Golding
#4. Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
William Golding
#5. My life flies away like a dream: Why should I stay behind?
Julia Golding
#6. I cannot convince myself that my mental capacities are important enough to justify either the good or the harm they started.
William Golding
#8. However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
William Golding
#9. Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no affairs of state to sidetrack us." He brushed his fingers againist the lacings of her neck. "Isn't it time you returned that shirt to its owner?
Julia Golding
#10. Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person
William Golding
#12. I think it's really important for Haitians living abroad to go back and help with the development and infrastructure, especially because there are so many international people there.
Meta Golding
#14. There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm the beast.
William Golding
#16. 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.
William Golding
#17. For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.
William Golding
#18. He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.
William Golding
#19. I was the only boy in our school what had asthma," said the fat boy with a touch of pride. "And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
William Golding
#20. In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language.
William Golding
#21. The thing is
fear can't hold you any more than a dream ...
William Golding
#22. I think are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,they are far superior and always have been. -William Golding
William Golding
#23. Jack looked around for understanding, but found only respect.
William Golding
#25. 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.
William Golding
#26. There is nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you're not hunting, but - being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle.
William Golding
#28. It was, perhaps, no situation from which to face a charging badger.
William Golding
#29. We think we know."
"Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.
William Golding
#30. Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
William Golding
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