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.
She's half mad and three parts drunk. - William Boyd
She's half mad and three parts drunk.
- William Boyd
I let people off the hook too easily. - William Boyd
I let people off the hook too easily.
There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain. - William Boyd
There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration. - William Boyd
I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to … - William Boyd
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to …
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a fr… - William Boyd
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a fr…
The last thing you know about yourself is your effect. - William Boyd
The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect. - William Boyd
The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.
We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact. - William Boyd
We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.
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