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> [People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/people-run-away-to-be-alone-he-said-some-people-had-to-be-alone/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

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## More by William Trevor

> [“She is embarrassed to be alive and no one on earth can fully console her.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/she-is-embarrassed-to-be-alive-and-no-one-on-earth-can-fully-console/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/people-like-me-write-because-otherwise-we-are-pretty-inarticulate-our/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [“Miss Clerricot blushes most charmingly and raises a hand to cover a portion of her countenance. It is a shame, this ill-feeling that exists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/miss-clerricot-blushes-most-charmingly-and-raises-a-hand-to-cover-a/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [“I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it’s a piece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/i-have-never-believed-in-the-axiom-that-a-writer-should-first-and/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [“You can’t apply academic rules to art of any kind. As soon as you begin to have rules, you begin to say, “Well, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/you-can-t-apply-academic-rules-to-art-of-any-kind-as-soon-as-you/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [“He was an old hand at the Camp now, his hollow countenance and the intensity of his averted gaze familiar to all who came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/he-was-an-old-hand-at-the-camp-now-his-hollow-countenance-and-the/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [“It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/it-should-be-an-explosion-of-truth-its-strength-lies-in-what-it/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [“Would he ever, he wondered, escape from people who banged on the doors he locked to demand his egress?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/would-he-ever-he-wondered-escape-from-people-who-banged-on-the-doors/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [“Studdy was thinking that the creature was an animal; he was saying to himself that it was surely in error that she had become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/studdy-was-thinking-that-the-creature-was-an-animal-he-was-saying-to/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/only-love-matters-in-the-bits-and-pieces-of-a-person-s-life/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [“The past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/the-past-has-no-belongings-the-past-does-not-obligingly-absorb-what/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [ I get melancholy if I don't \[write\]. I need the company of people who don't exist. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/i-get-melancholy-if-i-don-t-write-i-need-the-company-of-people-who/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/the-capacity-you-re-thinking-of-is-imagination-without-it-there-can/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [“He was new to London in those days, and he had not liked it. He had not cared for the intensity of the traffic,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/he-was-new-to-london-in-those-days-and-he-had-not-liked-it-he-had-not/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

> [“Memory in its ordinary way summoned harvested fields, and haycocks and autumn hedges, the first of the fuchsia, the last of the wild sweetpea.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-trevor/memory-in-its-ordinary-way-summoned-harvested-fields-and-haycocks-and/)

[William Trevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-trevor/)

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