“Look, writers aren't perfect , I want to cry, any more than husbands and wives are perfect. The only unfailing rule is,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Some Englishman once said marriage is a long dull meak with pudding served first” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“With a lover, a wife, when you find the worst - be it infidelity or lack of love, madness or the suicidal… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“You got your cheese, I hope? You won't mind a word of advice? Eat it. Don't put it in a plastic bag… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You would think, wouldn’t you, that if you were the child of a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In a novel, all his life's anxieties, his mixture of strength and weakness, his potential for hysteria - all would have been… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Our lack of originality is something we usefully forget as we hunch over our—to us—ever-fascinating lives. My friend M., leaving his wife… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
