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John Banville Quotes
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I don’t own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects (John Banville Quotes)
You can’t write about fantasy without being ridiculous (John Banville Quotes)
The secret of survival is a defective imagination (John Banville Quotes)
Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed (John Banville Quotes)
With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on (John Banville Quotes)
All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life’s almost-anagram (John Banville Quotes)
No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal (John Banville Quotes)
Life is tragic but it’s equally comic (John Banville Quotes)
The novel is resilient, and so are novelists (John Banville Quotes)
The past beats inside me like a second heart (John Banville Quotes)
I think I’m less the writer than I’m the written (John Banville Quotes)
I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part (John Banville Quotes)
I am the worst judge of my books (John Banville Quotes)
A plot begins when somebody has something to hide (John Banville Quotes)
What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it (John Banville Quotes)
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization (John Banville Quotes)
Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand (John Banville Quotes)
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off (John Banville Quotes)
If they give me the bloody prize, why can’t they say nice things about me? (John Banville Quotes)
Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus (John Banville Quotes)
Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it (John Banville Quotes)