As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily … - William Trevor

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The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his ethical thought and all his concepts of morality; not the outcome of primitive credulity which a more "enlightened" age could outgrow, but the only answer to a real, basic need of man at all times and in all environments. In another word, it is an instinct.

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.

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

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

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Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

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I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

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By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

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