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William Boyd Quotes

As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated.

William Boyd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Memories Experience Yourself Go

Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.

Meghan Markle

Life Yourself Identity Parents Push

Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.

Steve Blank

Business Customer Feedback Product

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

Simon Travaglia

Time Book Rest You Find Said

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Robert Fulghum

New Year's Interesting You Party Box

Yellow looks good with a brown suit, but then, a brown suit never looks good.

Roger Stone

Good Yellow Looks Never Suit Brown

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

Louise Jameson

History Space Think Brilliant Quirky

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

Joseph Prince

God Day Grace Striving One Day Own

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

David Suzuki

Nature Parents People Start Key

I don't think it is ever enough for a governing majority to simply be opposed to things. We have to be for things.

Cory Gardner

Think Enough Things Majority Simply

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Arthur Miller

Action Innocence Choose Choice Need

If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.

Woody Harrelson

Forest You Stop Go Oil Industry

Writing is pretty flexible work, don't you think? If you want to surf, you just have to get a lot done when the waves are lousy. That's what I'm always telling myself, anyway - write while the surf's down!

William Finnegan

Work Myself Writing Waves Think You