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I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.

~John Boyne

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I suppose books are my real passion in life.

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What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

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I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

~John Boyne

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Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.

~John Boyne

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: April 30th, 1971

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