William Boyd People Quotations

I let people off the hook too easily.

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

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.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.