Writer Quotes by John Banville

I am the worst judge of my books.

— John Banville

I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

— John Banville

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

— John Banville

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

— John Banville

Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.

— John Banville

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

— John Banville

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

— John Banville

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

— John Banville

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

— John Banville

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come…

— John Banville

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at…

— John Banville

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I…

— John Banville

I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great…

— John Banville

When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with…

— John Banville

Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living…

— John Banville

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such…

— John Banville

“Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living…

— John Banville