The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows hims… - 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 hims…
- William Trevor
He traveled in order to come home. - William Trevor
He traveled in order to come home.
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller. - William Trevor
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.
I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. - William Trevor
I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.
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 … - William Trevor
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 …
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing. - William Trevor
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life. - William Trevor
Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. - William Trevor
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read. - William Trevor
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
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