William Boyd
William Boyd
William Boyd, CBEis a British novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 March 1952
living
It is probably no exaggeration to say that she is Britain's preeminent living novelist.
advantage good griffin mistakes took
Griffin is a very good team. We made a lot of mistakes early, and they took advantage of them.
weather people true-life
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.
things-in-life can-do
There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.
judgement doctrine tranquility
I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.
common-humanity kitchen spy
I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.
rejection tolerate humankind
Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
sometimes stuck limbo
Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.
lasts effects
The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.
filth half hours
We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
suffering film
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
lasts about-yourself knows
The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
human
Human beings are interested in the human condition.