An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
– William Golding
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
– William Golding
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
– William Golding
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
– William Golding
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
– 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
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
– William Golding
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.
– William Golding
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.
– William Golding
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.