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To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

William Boyd

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

William Boyd

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

William Boyd

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

William Boyd

Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.

William Boyd

I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

William Boyd

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.

William Boyd

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

William Boyd

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

William Boyd

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

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

William Boyd

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.

William Boyd