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She is embarrassed to be alive and no one on earth can fully console her. — William Trevor

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written. — Kim Edwards

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

Shame isn't bad, her voice from somewhere else insists. Nor the humility that is its gift. — William Trevor

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. — Camille Paglia

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. — William Trevor

I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him. — Padgett Powell

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can't write unless you read. — William Trevor

I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it's a piece of misinformation. — William Trevor

Felicia's Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor. — Will Schwalbe

The past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted. — 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. — 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. — William Trevor

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing. — William Trevor

He traveled in order to come home. — William Trevor

I'm not interested in
who suffered the most.
I'm interested in
people getting over it. — Naomi Shihab Nye

The flies of some other summer darkening its windowsills. — William Trevor

The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce. — Mark W. Boyer

I felt no repugnance- I knew I was wicked, ten times more wicked, and that thought both braced and delighted me. — Robert Louis Stevenson

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone. — William Trevor

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it. — Luke Davies

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist. — William Trevor

It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more. — William Trevor

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. — William Trevor

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. — Elliot Paul

That was years ago. I've learned my lessons well and played my role. No longer willing to be a victim, today I'm insidious. — Aleatha Romig

Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids. — P. J. O'Rourke

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves. — Peter Singer