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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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
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Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.
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If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.
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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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By coincidence, this particular tiny show on earth that consists entirely of me talking about sports on NPR is also folding its tent flaps this May of 2017. Yes, this is my swansong, my farewell, my last hurrah. Adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen.
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I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.