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Take 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.
- For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create…
- These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I…
- To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.
- Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.
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