William Golding Quotes
Most popular William Golding Quotes
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
Childhood is a disease—a sickness that you grow out of.
Art is partly communication but only partly. The rest is discovery.
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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.
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.
