John Banville Quotes & Sayings
55 most famous John Banville quotes and sayings (novelist). These are the first 10 quotes we have for him.
“I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it's very difficult to find.”
“For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.”
“I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.”
“Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.”
“Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.”
“I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.”
“With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.”
“I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.”
“I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get.”
“I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.”
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