Blushing Quote by William Trevor

“She is embarrassed to be alive and no one on earth can fully console her.”

— William Trevor

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor

“I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it’s a piece…

— William Trevor

“You can’t apply academic rules to art of any kind. As soon as you begin to have rules, you begin to say, “Well, it…

— William Trevor

“He was an old hand at the Camp now, his hollow countenance and the intensity of his averted gaze familiar to all who came…

— William Trevor

“It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if…

— William Trevor

“Would he ever, he wondered, escape from people who banged on the doors he locked to demand his egress?”

— William Trevor

“Studdy was thinking that the creature was an animal; he was saying to himself that it was surely in error that she had become…

— William Trevor

Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

— William Trevor

“The past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted.”

— William Trevor

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

— William Trevor

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

— William Trevor