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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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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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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Since I became part of the zeitgeist, I've been called a sellout many times.
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Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.
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I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
