KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

John Burnside Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by John Burnside

Showing 31-40 of 95 Quotes by John Burnside

Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


You can't sit down and decide what you want to write about.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A mad person isn't someone who sees what isn't there; he's someone who sees what is there but that others can't see. I really believe that.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: March 19th, 1955

Links

Find John Burnside on Amazon

Related Authors

Iain Banks
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Henry Drummond
Gilbert Highet
Steven Moffat
Tobias Smollett
Robert Louis Stevenson
Frances Wright

Popular Authors

Ludwig Van Beethoven Jesus Christ Jimi Hendrix Rainer Maria Rilke Jean-Paul Sartre Thomas Sowell Rabindranath Tagore Donald Trump

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1878 - Joseph Stalin

1835 - Lyman Abbott

1852 - George H. White

1859 - Francis Thompson

1870 - Hector Hugh Munro

1886 - Ty Cobb

1888 - Robert Moses

1890 - Edwin Armstrong

1904 - George Stevens

1907 - Christopher Fry

Birthdays on December 18th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Fear Forgiveness Gardening God Happiness Imagination Legal Valentine's Day