William Golding Quotes

“They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“I thought Lord of the Flies was one of the great rip-offs of our time. Complete steal from A High Wind In Jamaica. He just literally lifted the entire theme, plot, and virtually characterization from A High Wind In Jamaica, turned them into a bunch of small boys and placed it on an island. Otherwise it's precisely the same novel.”
― Truman Capote, Conversations with Capote

“Hayatın belli bir düzeni yoktur, Summers. Edebiyatın kusuru da ona bir düzen vermeye kalkmasıdır.”
― William Golding, Rites of Passage

“Mrs. Lasserstein passes out copies of Lord of the Flies and says this will be our fall book, but a whole season seems too long because Lord of the Flies is only 208 pages, and I have already read it, and it is not very interesting. It is by William Golding who won an award for showing that boys are mean and badly behaved, even somewhere nice like the beach. This seems like something anyone in the entire world who has ever met a boy could tell you, but they gave William Golding a Nobel Prize for it.”
― Laurie Frankel, One Two Three

“Our fear of the dark reveals our true nature. In the darkness, the light can be seen for what it is... The salvation of civilization. Yet, place anyone under a big enough magnifying glass, he'll get burned. ~Oliver Oyanadel”
― Oliver Oyanadel, Little Arson Annie: Short Stories