“You think it begins to diminish with time, the pain, then it comes back and hits you with a rawness and freshness… — William Boyd Pain Copy Share Image
“I don’t have many photographs of myself – a trait common to most professional photographers” — William Boyd Photography Copy Share Image
“Loss adjusters are noble men who frustrate and negate the bland promises of insurance. We act out of the great unbending principles… — William Boyd Life Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to live reasonably without lying? Do lies form the natural foundation of all human relationships, the thread that stitches… — William Boyd Human relationship 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 Change 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 Art 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 About 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 Arguing Copy Share Image
“As I write this I feel that draining hollowing helplessness that genuine love for another person produces in you. It's at these… — William Boyd Genuine love Copy Share Image
“Wouldn’t it be wiser to experience the day ahead and savour it, as if it were my last, and postpone for a… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go… — William Boyd Book Copy Share Image
“what is it about me and basements? Why do I like the semi-subterranean life?” — William Boyd Life Copy Share Image
“Looking over the beach and the ocean as the sun begins to drop down in the west, a strange sense of pride:… — William Boyd Pride Copy Share Image
Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs. — William Boyd Abandoned Copy Share Image
“I wasn't feeling grief: that hellish chest-crammed agony you feel - but some portion of my brain activated by the memory decided… — William Boyd Death 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 Desire Copy Share Image
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and… — William Boyd Books Copy Share Image
“It amazes me what compromises we happily live with. We limp along, patching up, improvising.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary - it is the respective proportion of those two categories that make that life appear… — William Boyd Life Copy Share Image
“Those were the years when I was truly happy. Knowing that is both a blessing and a curse. It's good to acknowledge… — William Boyd Happiness Copy Share Image
