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.
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.
advantage good griffin mistakes took
Griffin is a very good team. We made a lot of mistakes early, and they took advantage of them.
ideas facts persons
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.
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.
bereavement age unjust
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.
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.
self individual form
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.