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My Own Quotes by John Banville
- I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.
- What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had…
- How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review,…
More My Own Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman
- If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. — Kevin Bacon
- I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much… — Amy Adams
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
- I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. — Christian Bale