Author: Julian Barnes

Quotes

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

- Julian Barnes

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

- Julian Barnes

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

- Julian Barnes

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

- Julian Barnes

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

- Julian Barnes

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

- Julian Barnes

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

- Julian Barnes

Similar Authors: