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I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

— John Banville

“What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We…

— John Banville

“Her own mother had died when Anna was twelve and since then father and daughter had faced the world like a pair of nineteenth-century…

— John Banville

The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout…

— John Banville

“Of all the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the…

— John Banville

I am the worst judge of my books.

— John Banville

“Yet even without saying, each knew what the other was thinking, and, more acutely, what the other was feeling -- this is a further…

— John Banville

“I have ever had the conviction, resistant to all rational considerations, that at some unspecified future moment the continuous rehearsal which is my life,…

— John Banville

“The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.”

— John Banville

“Whom now would I love, and who would love me?”

— John Banville

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

— John Banville

“At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.”

— John Banville

“It seems to me a work of art is the evidence offered by a fantastically observant witness”

— John Banville

Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what…

— John Banville

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

— John Banville