William Trevor quotes

He traveled in order to come home. (William Trevor)
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
William Trevor
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can't write unless you read. View quote
William Trevor
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist. View quote
William Trevor
People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone. View quote
William Trevor