I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation. William Boyd Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What’s important to me is that all of my books are in print – and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It’s that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it. William Boyd Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. William Boyd Read Quote
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap – the literary world and the world of rock music. William Boyd Read Quote
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don’t suffer from that. William Boyd Read Quote
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It’s more fulfilling. William Boyd Read Quote
