Quotes by Simon Van Booy

About Simon Van Booy:

Simon Van Booy is a British-American writer who lives in the United States. He grew up in rural Wales, but has lived in Kentucky, Paris, Athens, New York City and the Hamptons. Love Begins in Winter won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
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I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

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Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

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When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

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I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

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Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.

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I once saved someone from drowning.

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I find hunger more interesting than accomplishment.

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The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.

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As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a...

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This is why fashion is such a magical part of our lives, for it inspires our decisions without dictating them; it sets the theme but not the limits of our aesthetic.

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Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

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[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

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Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

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I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

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Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history...

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Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

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The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.

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Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don't change size when the body does through the natural ageing process.

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Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

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Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

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I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

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Author Bio

  • NameSimon Van Booy
  • DescriptionNovelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, designer.
  • Born1975
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist