Quotes by : William Trevor

He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different....

Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

I think it is the art of the glimpse. If the novel is like an intricate Renaissance painting, the short....

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

A child in London asked her father what autumn was, having heard it spoken of these days, and the father....

All this occupied his thoughts when he revisited the places of his war. Tramping over soil fed by the....

By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing....

Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy:....