Quotes from William Golding
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
- William Golding
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
- William Golding
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.
- William Golding
Life itself is a rickety building
- William Golding
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
- William Golding
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
- William Golding
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
- William Golding
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?
- William Golding
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
- William Golding
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
- William Golding
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
- William Golding
Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.
- William Golding