William Trevor

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
― William Trevor

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
― William Trevor

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.
― William Trevor, Love and Summer

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
― William Trevor

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance.   

― William Trevor

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