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Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

~John Banville

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All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

~John Banville

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I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

~John Banville

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In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.

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I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?

~John Banville

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: December 8th, 1945

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