Best Julian Barnes Quotes
- Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere. At least, not… Art
- Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing to admit. And… Admit
- Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. Book
- But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time. Advantage
- In life, every ending is just the start of another story. Another Story
- Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. Best
- But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book. Book
- All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things. All
- Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the… Directly
- Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists. All
- 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… Beyond
- I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it. English
- I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. Instinct
- I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and… Coming
- I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books. Book
- I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people. Attached
- Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze… Asking
- In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. Anxiety
- 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… Art
- In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence. Britain
- It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead.… Admire
- Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults. Adolescence
- Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches. Book
- Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various… Argue
- 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:… Book
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