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I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

~John Banville

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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

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I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

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I don't see how English as we use it in Europe can be revivified. It's like Latin must have been in about A.D. 300, tired and used up. All one can do is press very hard stylistically to make it glow.

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I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great diarist, a great short story writer, and a great novelist - I'd put novelist last.

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With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

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With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

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When I say I don't like my own work, that doesn't mean it isn't better than everyone else's.

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I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

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Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: December 8th, 1945

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