Julian Barnes Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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Julian Barnes quotes and sayings page 2 (78 year old writer). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 29 we have for him.

Julian Barnes Quotes
“Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.”
Julian Barnes Quotes
“Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.”
Julian Barnes Quotes
“I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!”
Julian Barnes Quotes
“Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.”
Julian Barnes Quotes
“Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.”
Julian Barnes Quotes
“In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.”
Julian Barnes Quotes
“Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?”
Julian Barnes Quotes
“I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.”
Julian Barnes Quotes
“I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.”
Julian Barnes Quotes
“I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.”

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