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

Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

- 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.

- William Trevor

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

- 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 …

- William Trevor

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

- William Trevor

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

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

- William Trevor