Words matter. These are the best William Golding Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I wrote ‘Lord of the Flies’ – I had no idea it would even get published.
While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion – namely, that I myself could not think at all.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
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.
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
If you… scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.
We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them.
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.
