William Trevor
William Trevor
William Trevor, KBE, is an Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 May 1928
CountryIreland
writing people needs
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
mother thinking dozen
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
home order america
He traveled in order to come home.
believe writing knowing
I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.
thinking imagination understanding
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.