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William Trevor Quotes

He traveled in order to come home Picture Quote #1

Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person’s life Picture Quote #1

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author’s own. But in my case that is as far as it goes Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 is for me, and I shall do it Picture Quote #1

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read Picture Quote #1

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with Picture Quote #1

By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You’re sort of a predator, an invader of people Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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He traveled in order to come home (William Trevor Quotes) Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person’s life (William Trevor Quotes) People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing (William Trevor Quotes) 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 (William Trevor Quotes) There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author’s own. But in my case that is as far as it goes (William Trevor Quotes) 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 (William Trevor Quotes) Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn’t do that. That is for me, and I shall do it (William Trevor Quotes) I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read (William Trevor Quotes) The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with (William Trevor Quotes) By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You’re sort of a predator, an invader of people (William Trevor Quotes) 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 (William Trevor Quotes)