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Book Quotes by Julian Barnes
- When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
- Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
- Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
- But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.
- I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.
- Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.
- 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 ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.
- The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
- Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional…
- When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want…
- Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm…
- ..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.
- When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different…
- To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.
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