William Boyd
William Boyd
William Boyd, CBEis a British novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 March 1952
people hook
I let people off the hook too easily.
tree world growing
Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.
men desire world
When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.
people turns possessed
We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.
self individual form
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.
real frustration boredom
I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.
filth half hours
We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
mad drunk half
She's half mad and three parts drunk.
lasts effects
The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.
views acting tools
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.
sometimes stuck limbo
Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.
people novel
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
art rocks two
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
reality glowing people
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.