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“To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.”

Quote by William Boyd

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William Boyd is a British novelist known for his unique narrative skills and rich imagination. His works span a variety of genres, including historical novels, spy novels, and adventure novels. Boyd's novels are characterized by complex characters and captivating plots. more

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“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.”

Knows Book Novel Successful Print Fifth Booksellers

Author:William Boyd

“Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.”

Film Lines Novel Clear Strikes Mediums Fantastic Broads Subtlety Nuance

Author:William Boyd

“I let people off the hook too easily.”

Author:William Boyd

“With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.”

World Film Actors Can Do Views Acting Written Tools Cameras Point Of View Comparison Crude Paragraph Subjectivity Good Acting

Author:William Boyd

“One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.”

World Hands Evil Accumulation Monstrous

Book:(XXX, 387 p.)

Source: (XXX, 387 p.)

“To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each moment -- what He requires of us, and to leave ourselves, our friends, and every interest at His control, with a cheerful trust that the path which He marks out leads to our perfection and to Himself, -- this is at once our duty and happiness; and why will we not walk in the plain, simple way?.”

Way Made Said Moments Interest Simple Walks Known Path Duty Perfection Mark Gods Will Cheerful Cheerfulness Simple Ways

Book:Memoir of William Ellery Channing, with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts ...

Source: Memoir of William Ellery Channing, with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts ...

“Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.”

Men Mind Littles Body Effort Compassion Watches Ought Fortune Investment Crowds Over It Capitalist Toil Compass Mind And Body Exhausting Working Man

Book:Lectures [on the elevation of the working classes] with selections from his writings

Source: Lectures [on the elevation of the working classes] with selections from his writings

“Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.”

Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838

“The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.”

Ifs Men Humans Littles War Turns Evil Violence Crime Standards Rage Lust Chiefs Brands Beast Concentration Fraud Prey Perfidy Evils Of War

Book:Lecture on War

Source: Lecture on War

“I am a living member of the great family of all souls.”

Soul Members Oneness Great Family

Book:The Perfect Life: In Twelve Discourses

Source: The Perfect Life: In Twelve Discourses