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William Boyd Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: March 7, 1952

Topics

Nothing Sense Novels Certain

Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year.

Morning Experience Looking Year Back

Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced.

Racial Should Rejected Distinctions

The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet to go to probably does his or her best to spend less. It is a human behavior that is as revealing as any other about human nature, but only if it can be released from the social straitjacket of nicety.

Life Nature Best Behavior Go Three

Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.

Great Stand America Country Why

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

Work Day I Am Every Day Write Novel

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.

Time Feeling Only Published Entitled

There's something really interesting about how human beings just want to see animals tear each other apart, maybe because we can't do it.

Colin Trevorrow

Interesting Animals Want Human See

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope

Life Success Early Success Is Only

The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.

People Sometimes Understand West How

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

Heart Men Mind World Born Never

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Yourself High Standards High Set Few

Onstage, we're very dominant and aggressive. But we laugh and play a lot, too.

Laugh Play Aggressive Dominant Very

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