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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
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 inwho 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
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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