William Trevor
William Trevor
William Trevor, KBE, 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...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 May 1928
CountryIreland
beautiful summer rocks
As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made truth of what appeared to be. The days that passed, in becoming weeks, still did not disturb the surface an assumption had created. The weather of a beautiful summer continued with neither sign nor hint that credence had been misplaced. The single sandal found among the rocks became a sodden image of death; and as the keening on the pier at Kilauran traditionally marked distres brought by the sea, so did silence at Lahardane.
character knowing people
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.
writing
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
memories ifs
Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.
writing people needs
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.