Quotes by William Boyd

William Boyd

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

Heart

Quality

Running

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it’s a rich vein to tap, and I don’t think I have exhausted it fully yet.

Encounters

Thinking

Veins

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes – which can be fantastic – but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn’t even get close.

Film

Lines

Nuance

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

Humankind

Rejection

Tolerate

I don’t think they’ll ever make a retro Bond.

Retro

Thinking

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

Doctrine

Judgement

Tranquility

I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.

Fall

Hair

Mad

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

Boredom

Frustration

Real

I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

Book

Novel

Successful

I let people off the hook too easily.

Hook

People

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Book

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Cameras

Can Do

Certain

Common Humanity

Desire

Doctrine

Drunk

Effects

Encounters

Facts

Fall

Family And Friends

Film

Filth

Form

Frustration

Glowing

Growing

Hair

Half

Hard Work

Heart

Hook

Hours

Humankind

Ideas

Individual

Instinct

Interesting

Judgement

Kitchen

Knows

Lasts

Limbo

Lines

Mad

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Quotes by William Boyd

William Boyd

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it’s a rich vein to tap, and I don’t think I have exhausted it fully yet.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes – which can be fantastic – but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn’t even get close.

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

I don’t think they’ll ever make a retro Bond.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

I let people off the hook too easily.

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