Keeping a journal Quote by William Boyd

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

— William Boyd

“Here at its extremities the terrified transients gathered, gazing out at the vast refulgent ocean for some sign of security.”

— William Boyd

“We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.”

— William Boyd

“Old Testament prophets. ‘You savvy dis fetish thing?”

— William Boyd

Human beings are interested in the human condition.

— William Boyd

“A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for…

— William Boyd

I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.

— William Boyd

With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very…

— William Boyd

“any man over forty who deliberately combs his hair forward in a child’s fringe has something suspect about him,”

— William Boyd

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

— William Boyd

“All great artists are doubters.”

— William Boyd

“Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard, yet again.”

— William Boyd