“Here at its extremities the terrified transients gathered, gazing out at the vast refulgent ocean for some sign of security.” — William Boyd Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.” — William Boyd Knows 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… — William Boyd Ambition Copy Share Image
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad. — William Boyd Across Copy Share Image
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even… — William Boyd Acting 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 Children 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 Life Copy Share Image
“Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard,… — William Boyd Depression Copy Share Image
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that. — William Boyd Between Copy Share Image
“So much for my great vendetta, so much for the tireless hunt for my betrayer. Isn't this how life turns out, more… — William Boyd Life Copy Share Image
“So I found myself asking the question: what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn’t a word, in… — William Boyd Best intentions Copy Share Image
“Love is not a feeling. It does not belong to that category of bodily experience which would include, for instance, pain.” — William Boyd Love Copy Share Image
“I write - poignantly, in the most heartfelt way - about how I miss her and how I detest my life in… — William Boyd Frustration Copy Share Image
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being. — William Boyd Collections Copy Share Image
“It was pleasant - and the sense of otherness was nice, that there were two people involved in this process, that we… — William Boyd Kissing Copy Share Image
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way. — William Boyd Art Copy Share Image
We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that… — William Boyd Facts Copy Share Image
“I say to myself, at last you are in tune with the universe.” — William Boyd Acceptance 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 Becomes Copy Share Image
