Julian Barnes Quotes & Sayings

29 most famous Julian Barnes quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 78 year old British writer born on Jan 19, 1946.

“Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.”

“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”

“I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.”

“Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.”

“The land of embarrassment and breakfast.”

“Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.”

“What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.”

“Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.”