William Boyd Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.”

“My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.”

“The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.”

“There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.”

“There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.”

“To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.”

“At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures apply more and more to books, how do you keep a book you wrote 28 years ago selling well year on year? Because it really is getting harder.”

“Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.”

“Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.”

“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.”