“Maybe this is what life is like - we try to see clearly but what we see is never clear and is… — William Boyd Life Copy Share Image
“David Gascoyne once told me that the only point of keeping a journal was to concentrate of the personal, the diurnal minutiae,… — William Boyd Keeping a journal Copy Share Image
“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.” — William Boyd Language Copy Share Image
“A Horrible thought: could this be the pattern of my life ahead? Every ambition thwarted, every dream stillborn? But a seconds reflection… — William Boyd Ambition Copy Share Image
“We all see the world differently from each other; we all have unique vision.” — William Boyd Dreams Copy Share Image
“Do you know that feeling? When you meet someone and you know? The sudden hollowing out of your torso, as if your… — William Boyd Fear Copy Share Image
“When I think of my youth, he went in, what we took for granted, what we assumed was for ever certain, for… — William Boyd Youth Copy Share Image
“I experienced a form of grief so intense and pure I thought it would kill me.” — William Boyd Death Copy Share Image
“LOSER! You English lose...I suppose he thought it was the most grievous insult he could hurl. But such a curse doesn't really… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect. — William Boyd Education Copy Share Image
“They are all about romance, about life's excitement and adventure and it's essential sadness and transience. They savour everything both fine and… — William Boyd Adventure Copy Share Image
“Then, as I stood in that English garden on the soft early summer night, I felt a surge of pure well-being engulf… — William Boyd Happiness Copy Share Image
“Because it seems to me that to be human you have to be able to compromise.” — William Boyd Nature of man Copy Share Image
“The pleasures of my life here are simple – simple, inexpensive and democratic. A warm hill of Marmande tomatoes on a roadside… — William Boyd Cold beer Copy Share Image
“But you can be too intelligent, I said. Sometimes it's not an asset it's a curse.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“Why does the sea induce these feelings of transcendence in us? Is it because an unobstructed view of overarching sky meeting endlessly… — 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 Absolutely Copy Share Image
“Winter reveals the massive, complex, muscular organization of the ancient oak. Like an old man stripped of his Savile Row, tailored suit… — William Boyd Old man Copy Share Image
“All film technique, I am convinced (and like many of my theories I am probably alone in adhering to it), originates in… — William Boyd Cinema Copy Share Image
I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will… — William Boyd Always 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 Ageing Copy Share Image
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling. — William Boyd Argue Copy Share Image
