"Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or……" — John Banville
"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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- It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
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- All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
- Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
- Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a…
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- I am the worst judge of my books.
- I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.
- I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.
- I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.
- I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
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