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Writer Quotes by Julian Barnes
- Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
- 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…
- In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
- What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps,…
- The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
- The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
- If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.
- The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
- It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.
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