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John Banville Quotes

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: December 8, 1945

Topics

Family Book I Can Crime Like After

Da'esh and Assad are not separate problems.

Problems Separate

I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.

Jesse Eisenberg

Politics Silly Country Way Never Up

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

Robert Krulwich

Time Trust Words Eye Learn Powerful

Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease.

People Die Doing You Serious Will

You have to have patience and confidence that your things will let you know where they need to go. Particularly artwork. Paintings will tell you where they want to be.

Anjelica Huston

Patience Confidence You Know Want

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

You More Writer Than Ratio Lot

I started doing drag because I needed a creative outlet for myself.

Myself Creative Doing Drag Started

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

Rock And Roll You Drummer Rock Roll

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

Adventurous Cowardly Terribly

At one point, in one of the kitchens where I worked, I was the only American pastry cook. They treated me poorly. 'You're stupid. You're American. You don't get it.' They'd speak French all day. At one point, my boss said to me, 'You learn French or get out right away.'

Day Boss Me Stupid Speak Learn

Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.

Love Respect Keep Going Politics Up

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

Christopher Love

Art Men Will Servant Glorious Holy

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