"I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I……" — William Trevor
"I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist."
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William Trevor
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16 Quotes by William Trevor
William Trevor has 16 quotes on this site.
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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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As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what…
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As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the…
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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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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into…
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will…
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Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
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Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
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I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies.…
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It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love…
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