Author: John Banville

Quotes

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.

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.

- John Banville

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

- John Banville

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.

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.

- John Banville

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

- John Banville

When I say I don't like my own work, that doesn't mean it isn't better than everyone else's.

When I say I don't like my own work, that doesn't mean it isn't better than everyone else's.

- John Banville

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

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

- John Banville

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

- John Banville

Death 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.

Death 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.

- John Banville

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