Simon Van Booy
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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
genuinely people trying
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.
boys people paper
I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
people and-love want
Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.
people wonder happens
Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.
people want never-forget
I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.
love-you people absence
But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?
people shapes seems
It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.
wall people life-is
For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.
lonely rain people
For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
children disappointment people
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 of how you felt.
hard work
When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.
supportive
Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.
art dedicate ensuring life longevity museums public save surgeons themselves trying works york
Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view.
death eventually love simply taken value
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.