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I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.
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.
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 friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.
William Boyd
I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.
William Boyd
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.
William Boyd
As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated.
William Boyd
The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
William Boyd
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.
William Boyd
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
William Boyd
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.
William Boyd
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
William Boyd
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.
William Boyd
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
William Boyd
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.
William Boyd
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
William Boyd
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.
William Boyd
I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world.
William Boyd
I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.
William Boyd
Human beings are interested in the human condition.
William Boyd
At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures apply more and more to books, how do you keep a book you wrote 28 years ago selling well year on year? Because it really is getting harder.
William Boyd
There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
William Boyd
I let people off the hook too easily.
William Boyd
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