“When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering. As long as you go on telling him a story, he will listen. Novelists who neglect this fundamental effect do so at their peril. They become what is known as the experimental novelist, and an experimental novel is not really a novel at all.” ChildrenLongStoriesKnownNovelHellEffectsGoes OnFundamentalsKneesNovelistsNeglectPerilOnce Upon A Time Author:William Golding
“I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.” FeelsLongCertainNovelPaperFundamentalsConvenience Author:William Golding
“His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.” MindLongMemoriesStruggleTakenDrinkSatisfyingPigsLiving ThingsCrowded Book:Lord of the Flies Source: Lord of the Flies
“Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?” IfsHumansLongStatesWholeSocialImaginationSimpleForgetExerciseTestsMadTreatedStaringDescriptionUtopiaDemonstrationCritiqueStarksCondemnationInspection Author:William Golding
“How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?” LongMadStaringUtopiaStarks Book:Moving Target Source: Moving Target
“Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.” MenLongBookCharacterNovelConceptsMediums Author:William Golding
“He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.” IfsMindLongDiesFallFearSleepWelcomeLong Sleep Author:William Golding
