"People like me write because otherwise we are……" — William Trevor
"People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing."
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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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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 Articulation Quotes
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Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the…
— Edwin H Friedman
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment…
— Thomas A. Edison
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I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I…
— Richard Serra
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When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it…
— Rem Koolhaas
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A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE
— John Baldessari
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The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean,…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to…
— Thomas Sowell
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The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on…
— Unknown Author
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The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.
— Lance Morrow
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Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the…
— Lewis Hyde
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I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of…
— Parker Stevenson
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