“I felt truly happy for the first time in years. Such moments should be logged and noted.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“You think it begins to diminish with time, the pain, then it comes back and hits you with a rawness and freshness… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“You know that feeling, when you can almost see the two or several directions your life might take ahead of you, a… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“From time to time Eva would venture on deck to gaze at the grey sky,the grey turbulent water and the grey ships… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“Here at its extremities the terrified transients gathered, gazing out at the vast refulgent ocean for some sign of security.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“any man over forty who deliberately combs his hair forward in a child’s fringe has something suspect about him,” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard, yet again.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
