William Boyd
William Boyd
William Boyd, CBEis a British novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 March 1952
William Boyd quotes about
apply facts human might true
We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
driving happen realize road west
you realize that could happen on King's Road in West London, with that courier driving too fast.
analysis bill came five legal paid
I'm one of five individuals who paid to have a legal analysis of the bill done, and that analysis came back and said it is not constitutional.
money pay property road sell state toll
If you sell property of the state, state asset, which the toll road is, the money has to go to pay down the debt. Just the same as if you sell your house, you have to pay for that mortgage.
account accounting certainly committee content derived hierarchy internal meeting passage prologue proposal vote
The vote during this weekend's meeting on the compromise, or 'alternate proposal,' is not necessarily prologue to passage up the NAIC committee hierarchy and certainly not in legislatures. Regulators will have to take into account what legislators think about the internal accounting content in the proposal that is derived from Sarbanes-Oxley.
lasts about-yourself knows
The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
fall hair mad
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.
suffering film
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
certain novel
There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
hard-work artist way
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
book successful novel
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.
lines nuance film
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.
people hook
I let people off the hook too easily.
tree world growing
Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.