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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
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John Banville
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: December 8
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I am the worst judge of my books.
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All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.
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I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.
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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.
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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 never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
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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
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
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All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
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I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
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And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.
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Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.
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The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
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With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.
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No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
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I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.
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Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.
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We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
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All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power I lied to lie. It was a way of living lies are life's almost-anagram.
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