"I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every……" — William Trevor
"I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither."
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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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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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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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More Abusive Quotes
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure…
— Joyce Banda
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I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any…
— Glenn Beck
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When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get…
— Mary J. Blige
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Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God…
— Amy Chua
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never…
— Tatum O'Neal
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A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency,…
— Ron Franscell
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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
— Wyndham Lewis
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
— Martin Luther
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In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are…
— George Ryan
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There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.
— Pranab Mukherjee
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