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 GoldingHow would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
William GoldingAn 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 GoldingAmong the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding