John Banville Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
John Banville quotes and sayings page 4 (novelist). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 55 we have for him.
“I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.”
“We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.”
“All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.”
“I am the worst judge of my books.”
“If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.”
“When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.”
“When I say I don't like my own work, that doesn't mean it isn't better than everyone else's.”
“You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.”
“All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.”
“Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.”
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