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Hard Quotes by John Banville
- Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.
- In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.
- Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
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