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We're constantly losing - we're losing time, we're losing ourselves. I don't feel for the things I lost.

~John Banville

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The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

~John Banville

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I am the worst judge of my books.

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All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

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My work is frequently described as cold, which is baffling, since it seems to me embarrassingly, shame-makingly, scandalously warm. I find my work filled with sentiment, and I can't imagine why people find it cold.

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When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.

~John Banville

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I always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.

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I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

~John Banville

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We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: December 8th, 1945

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