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The same applies to any artist we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.
William Trevor
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William Trevor
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 24
Died: 2016
Died: November 21
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By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.
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I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.
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The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
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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.
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People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.
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People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
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I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
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There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
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