List of William Golding Quotes

I Also Know Patrick White In Australia, Both Personally And As A Writer, And Salman Rushdie In India.

Latin, As We All Know, Ultimately Broke Down Into Spanish, Italian, French, And So On. One Wonders Whether There Will Be An Imperial Parallel With English Breaking Down Into, Shall We Say, North American, European, Australian, And So On. On The Other Hand, There Is This Immense, Inward-driving Influence Of Radio And Television That Is Bringing Us All Back Together. One Could Say It's A Fight Between The Two: A Fight Between Regionalism And The Standardization Through Communication.

Kill The Pig. Cut Her Throat. Spill Her Blood.

I Suppose Drama Can Either Take The Place Of A Novel Or Can Be Very Closely Allied With It. It's Quite Customary To Turn A Successful Novel Into A Film Or A Television Series Because You Can Dramatize And Pictorialize A Novel.

They Accepted The Pleasures Of Morning, The Bright Sun, The Whelming Sea And Sweet Air, As A Time When Play Was Good And Life So Full That Hope Was Not Necessary And Therefore Forgotten.

They Looked At Each Other, Baffled, In Love And Hate.

I Think They've Got 250 Languages In Nigeria, And So English Is A Sort Of Lingua Franca Between The 250 Languages.

Novelists Do Not Write As Birds Sing, By The Push Of Nature. It Is Part Of The Job That There Should Be Much Routine And Some Daily Stuff On The Level Of Carpentry.

Don't Get Me Wrong. I Have Nothing Against This As A Method, But It Is Not What English Writers Do.

Maybe Half A Dozen Think They Are A Community, But, In General Terms, I Think English Writers Tend To Face Outwards, Away From Each Other, And Write In Their Own Patch, As It Were.

Couldn't A Fire Outrun A Galloping Horse?

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.