John Banville's Profile
Brief about John Banville: By info that we know John Banville was born at 1945-12-08. And also John Banville is Irish Novelist.
Some John Banville's quotes. Goto "John Banville's quotation" section for more.We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.
Tags: Light, Shy, WritersWe're constantly losing - we're losing time, we're losing ourselves. I don't feel for the things I lost.
Tags: Losing, Lost, TimeWhen fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.
Tags: Artist, Eyes, KnowsWhen I say I don't like my own work, that doesn't mean it isn't better than everyone else's.
Tags: Else, Mean, WorkWith crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.
Tags: Crime, Fiction, WriteWith the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.
Tags: After, Book, FamilyYou can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.
Tags: Fantasy, Ridiculous, WriteYou 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.
Tags: Experience, Life, SmallAll novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.
Tags: Life, Time, WritingDeath is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.
Tags: Death, Place, StrangeHow I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of.
Tags: Book, Envy, WorkI always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.
Tags: Her, Him, SomebodyI don't 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, it's very difficult to find.
Tags: Difficult, Imagine, PersonalI don't see how English as we use it in Europe can be revivified. It's like Latin must have been in about A.D. 300, tired and used up. All one can do is press very hard stylistically to make it glow.
Tags: Hard, Tired, UsedI know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For example, I always remember my brother posting me a copy of 'Dubliners' from Africa, but he says he never did.
Tags: Far, Powerful, RememberI live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.
Tags: God, Why, WritingI 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.
Tags: Artist, Him, ReadI sometimes think that I might be slightly autistic. There might be a syndrome that hasn't been named. I don't seem to see the world in the same way that most people I know see it. They don't seem to be baffled by it.
Tags: Might, Seem, SometimesI suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.
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