"My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects……" — William Trevor
"My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller."
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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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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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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 Aspect Quotes
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
— Isaac Asimov
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Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
— Margaret Atwood
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The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand…
— Dean Acheson
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
— Drew Barrymore
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I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face,…
— Beck
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Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
— Aaliyah
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Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an…
— Elizabeth Berkley
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election.…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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