Books Quote by John Banville Download Open image ““The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.”” — John Banville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Elephant Dance Elephant Like Kind Elephant Make Elephant Novel Kind
“What if you like the elephant were gone to the place you were meant, after all, to be?” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Took myself to Byculla. The area around the elephants is very soothing. I wish I were an elephant. I would be so composed.” — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
“...there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“What can I say? I’m a straight shooter who’s never cared to dance around the pink elephant in a room, and had no intentions… — J.R. Rain Copy Share Image
“It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.” — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
“But perhaps you do not understand. I was crippled, crippled by an elephant that came through the roof - Madam LaVaughn” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“The elephant in the room. It can't be talked about. It can't be ignored.” — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
“She uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Her own mother had died when Anna was twelve and since then father and daughter had faced the world like a pair of nineteenth-century… — John Banville Copy Share Image
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Of all the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Yet even without saying, each knew what the other was thinking, and, more acutely, what the other was feeling -- this is a further… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“I have ever had the conviction, resistant to all rational considerations, that at some unspecified future moment the continuous rehearsal which is my life,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.” — John Banville Copy Share Image
“It seems to me a work of art is the evidence offered by a fantastically observant witness” — John Banville Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
