“There is a parallel, I think, but like so many literary parallels it’s a plain fact that people engaged in writing about humanity . . . are likely . . . to see something of the same thing. They’re both looking, after all, at the same object, so it would be really surprising if they weren’t literary parallels to be drawn between this book and that.”
–William Golding, quoted in James Baker, William Golding: A Critical Study, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1965.
Out West Writings 