Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy is a British-American writer who lives in the United States. He grew up in rural Wales, but has lived in Kentucky, Paris, Athens, New York City and the Hamptons. Love Begins in Winter won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
helping happened
Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
sound language longing
Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
sophisticated accepting form
Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
first-love men flames
Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord
ruined ifs
Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.
drinking reflection water
Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.
inspires magical sets theme
This is why fashion is such a magical part of our lives, for it inspires our decisions without dictating them; it sets the theme but not the limits of our aesthetic.
cultured disney succumb visit walt
Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.
scribbling
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
supportive
Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.
genuinely people trying
The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.