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John Banville Quotes

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People More Just Like Other Except

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Good Business Negative Know Say Who

You have to have your wallet for security reasons. I'm the governor. And I had to have money. I had to buy something to eat. You have to have identification.

Robert J. Bentley

Money You Security Eat Wallet Buy

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

Matthew McConaughey

You Bed Same Image Just Your

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

Work Book Acting Act Like Agent

When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.

Reality Plan Week You Now Ahead

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.

Children American Learn Teach Just

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

Luca Guadagnino

Vision Achievement Interesting You

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.

Work Family Home Myself Grace Drive

The protests against Harry Potter follow a tradition that has been growing since the early 1980s and often leaves school principals trembling with fear that is then passed down to teachers and librarians.

Fear School Tradition Early Down

Everybody has their due season. And it's all about what you do in your season.

You Season Your Everybody About Due

You go from being with the guys all the time in the locker room, in practice, having a militarized brain in terms of this schedule, and then, all of a sudden, you are on your own. You lose a sense of purpose; you lose a sense of yourself. And you lose confidence. You find yourself saying, 'I was the best at this, and now I'm not the best.'

Confidence Time Best Yourself Brain

I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.

Determination Think Hidden Difficult

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