William Trevor Quotes

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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.

William Trevor

When you looked at the map Ireland and England seemed like lovers…'Does the map remind you curiously of an embrace? A most extraordinary embrace to throw up all this.'

William Trevor

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

William Trevor

Marriage was all defeat and victory, and worked better when women were the defeated ones since men apparently could not bear to be and had no philosophy for that condition.

William Trevor

A disease in the family that is never mentioned.

Of the troubles in Northern Ireland

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

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

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

William Trevor

William Trevor

Born: May 24, 1928

Died: November 20, 2016 (aged 88)

Bio: William Trevor was an Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he was widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language.

Known for:

Love and Summer (2009)
Felicia's Journey (1994)
The Story of Lucy Gault (2002)
The Children of Dynmouth (1976)
Two Lives (1991)

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