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William Trevor
Irish
Writer
Born:
May 24
,
1928
Died:
Nov 20
,
2016
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The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
William Trevor
You
Understanding
Thinking
Imagination
Indeed
Without
Fiction
Capacity
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
You
Mother
Value
Motherhood
Every
Think
Neither
Find
Mothers
Fiction
Who
Dozen
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
Own
Pain
Pleasure
Distress
Case
Author
Goes
Autobiography
As Far As
Fiction
Far
Element
Based
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