"As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction……" — William Trevor
"As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance."
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William Trevor
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16 Quotes by William Trevor
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Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.
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By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well,…
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My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to…
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I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a…
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He traveled in order to come home.
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The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
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I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.
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People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
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There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the…
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I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
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As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what…
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Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That…
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