William Trevor Quotes
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.
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I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
