Quotes by William Trevor

About William Trevor:

William Trevor is an Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language.
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Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.

William Trevor

All this occupied his thoughts when he revisited the places of his war. Tramping over soil fed by the blood of men he had led and whose faces now stirred in his memory, it was his wife's response that came - as if in compensation for too little said ...

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People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

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He traveled in order to come home.

William Trevor

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

William Trevor

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

William Trevor

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

William Trevor

He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his...

William Trevor

By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

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People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

William Trevor

Author Bio

  • NameWilliam Trevor
  • DescriptionIrish writer
  • BornMay 24, 1928
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Sculptor; Author; Novelist
  • WorksThe Boarding House; Two Lives; Felicia's Journey; The Story Of Lucy Gault; Love And Summer
  • AwardsKnight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire