“Are there aspects of our lives - things we do, feel and think - that we daren't confess, even to ourselves, even… — William Boyd Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“I was convinced I had overdrawn my balance of good fortune; that whatever haphazard benevolence the impassive universe might hold towards me… — william boyd Balance Copy Share Image
“the key factor in our mutual pleasure was that we enjoyed each other’s company, which, banal though it may seem, is the… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
“we think we understand all about the human body but actually we know very little.” — William Boyd Human body Copy Share Image
“Like the button, the wheelbarrow, the spoon and the umbrella, the printed book is one of the truly great inventions of mankind… — William Boyd Books Copy Share Image
“Reasonable behavior was the last thing you wanted. You felt as if the resolution of human problems demanded passion and brute unreason,… — William Boyd Habits Copy Share Image
“Maybe we should go by tube', he said. A taxi'll come', she said. 'I'm in no hurry'. She remembered something a woman… — William Boyd Love Copy Share Image
“It’s funny how, sometimes, one can be so convinced, so utterly certain, about something as entirely fickle as strong emotion” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because… — William Boyd Africa Copy Share Image
It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us.… — William Boyd Body Copy Share Image
Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill,… — William Boyd Adapting Copy Share Image
“That's ally our life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience.… — William Boyd Bad luck 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 Apply 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 Time Copy Share Image
“There were three PROs looking after us – a measure of how the army and the mass media were now coexisting and… — William Boyd Mass media Copy Share Image
“Everything in life is a bit odd, when you come to think of it.” — William Boyd Life Copy Share Image
As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early… — William Boyd Because Copy Share Image
“It was like picking a scab off a sore; he actually wanted scar tissue - it would be quite wrong to try… — William Boyd Every step Copy Share Image
“I felt shocked and then saddened. life does this to you sometimes - leads you up a path and then drops you… — William Boyd Life Copy Share Image
I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration. — William Boyd Before i die Copy Share Image
“Sitting in this small pub with its cool flagged floor, listening to the murmuring voices of the haymakers and the click of… — William Boyd Drinking beer Copy Share Image
I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement. — William Boyd Advise Copy Share Image
“Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial?” — William Boyd Crumpets Copy Share Image
