WILLIAM GOLDING

 

It seems to me that we do live in two worlds. There is this physical one, which is coherent, and there is a spiritual one, which to the average man, with his flashes of religious experience, if you like to call them that   —that world is very often incoherent. This experience of having two worlds to live in all the time, or… not all the time, occasionally, is a vital one and is what living is like.

 

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I don’t like the word "allegorical”; I don’t like the word "symbolic", the word I really like is "mythic" and people always think that means "full of lies" when what it really means is full of a truth that cannot be told in any other way but a story.

 

 

Quoted in The Dreams of William Golding, BBC Arena (2012)