William Trevor Quotes
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.
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My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.
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Having signed a few autographs in my time, I always wonder what the heck people do with them.
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.
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I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
