“I may be a shit writer,’ I remember him saying once, ‘but I’m richer than any of the good ones.” — William Boyd Money Copy Share Image
“what massive turbulence of emotion she hid beneath a surface of total calm and placidity.” — William Boyd Heart Copy Share Image
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“It amazes me what compromises we happily live with. We limp along, patching up, improvising.” — William Boyd Compromise Copy Share Image
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being. — William Boyd 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
“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
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen,… — William Boyd Age 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
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
“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
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay… — 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 Art 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 Flower 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“Charbonneau was an interesting, amusing and provocative man and I like to think he brought out the best in me, also. Even… — William Boyd Provocative 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
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way. — William Boyd Art Copy Share Image
“what is it about me and basements? Why do I like the semi-subterranean life?” — William Boyd 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
“Because it seems to me that to be human you have to be able to compromise.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“We all see the world differently from each other; we all have unique vision.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial?” — William Boyd Crumpets 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
“I experienced a form of grief so intense and pure I thought it would kill me.” — William Boyd Death Copy Share Image
“It terrifies me, the fragility of these moments in our lives.” — William Boyd Fragility Copy Share Image
“I felt truly happy for the first time in years. Such moments should be logged and noted.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“I don’t have many photographs of myself – a trait common to most professional photographers” — William Boyd Photographers Copy Share Image
