William Boyd
Novelist
1952-03-07
Quotes by William Boyd
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The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like.
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The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like.
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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.
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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.
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With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.
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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die ... You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
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