With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge,… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that… — 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
