Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The trouble with you, Vic, he said, is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.
John Banville
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Banville
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 8
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Benjamin Black
William John Banville
Many
Think
Visitors
Thinking
Museum
World
Museums
Allowed
Huge
Trouble
Sort
More quotes by John Banville
...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left
John Banville
There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.
John Banville
The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.
John Banville
Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.
John Banville
I dont 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, its very difficult to find.
John Banville
A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.
John Banville
The secret of survival is a defective imagination.
John Banville
Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand.
John Banville
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
Ian McEwan is a very good writer the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.
John Banville
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.
John Banville
I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.
John Banville
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.
John Banville
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.
John Banville
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
John Banville
I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
John Banville
I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
John Banville
Life is tragic but it's equally comic.
John Banville
All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
John Banville
And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.
John Banville
