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William Trevor
Irish
Writer
About the author
He traveled in order to come home.
William Trevor,
Irish
Writer
#Home
#Order
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
William Trevor,
Irish
Writer
#Mother
#Value
#Fiction
#Mothers
#Motherhood
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
William Trevor,
Irish
Writer
#Thinking
#Imagination
#Understanding
#Fiction
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
William Trevor,
Irish
Writer
#Pleasure
#Pain
#Fiction
#Autobiography