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John Banville Quotes

Irish - Novelist | December 8, 1945 -

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

Time Imagination Memory Create Real

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

Failure Doubt Everything Self-Doubt

Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed.

Life Work People You Look Living

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

Work My Own More Own Far Critical

I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.

Women Men People Me Men And Women

We're constantly losing - we're losing time, we're losing ourselves. I don't feel for the things I lost.

Time Losing Feel Lost Things

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

Way Big Prize Books Should Popular

I am the worst judge of my books.

I Am Judge Worst Books Am

All 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.

Life Time I Am Me Writing Know

My work is frequently described as cold, which is baffling, since it seems to me embarrassingly, shame-makingly, scandalously warm. I find my work filled with sentiment, and I can't imagine why people find it cold.

Work People Me Cold Warm Find

How 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.

Work Window Book Hotel Envy Look

When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.

Eyes Disappointment Me Artist I Can

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