117 Quotes by 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.

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

I don't know where you heard the rumors (of annexation), ... I don't know where they got started. In any meeting I've ever been to, we have never mentioned annexation at all. It's never been mentioned.

But that relaxed version forwarded to the Title IV Subgroup still adds costs to state solvency regulation that aren't needed, based on the insolvency record of mutual insurers.

Griffin is a very good team. We made a lot of mistakes early, and they took advantage of them.

It is probably no exaggeration to say that she is Britain's preeminent living novelist.

We have criticized these, but the real problem, the really irrational part of what is proposed, is the material on internal accounting control.

The governor has asked us to be open-minded about this. I think the governor is so open-minded that his brains fell out.

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.