What did William Boyd mean by: My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other. - William Boyd Author · Ghana Copy
+ Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck. Feraz Zeid, August 11, 2023December 12, 2023, William Boyd, Stuck, 0 - William Boyd Author · Ghana
+ There’s a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain. Feraz Zeid, June 9, 2023December 12, 2023, William Boyd, Certainty, Novel, 0 - William Boyd Author · Ghana
+ To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Boyd, Artist, Hard Work, 0 - William Boyd Author · Ghana
+ I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Boyd, Boredom, Frustration, 0 - William Boyd Author · Ghana
+ Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Boyd, Heart, Quality, Running, 0 - William Boyd Author · Ghana
+ We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Boyd, Form, Individual, Self, 0 - William Boyd Author · Ghana
+ I let people off the hook too easily. Feraz Zeid, June 20, 2023December 12, 2023, William Boyd, Hook, 0 - William Boyd Author · Ghana
+ The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect. Feraz Zeid, July 4, 2023December 12, 2023, William Boyd, Effects, 0 - William Boyd Author · Ghana
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn’t have any. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. - Jennifer Echols Author
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works - Gabrielle Zevin Author · USA
In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival. - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is. - Quiara Alegria Hudes Playwright