KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

John Burnside Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by John Burnside

Showing 61-70 of 95 Quotes by John Burnside

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

~John Burnside

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.

~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

Jimmy Buffett Warren Buffett Charlie Chaplin Dwight D. Eisenhower Sigmund Freud Thomas Hobbes John Locke Eckhart Tolle

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

Architecture Art Failure Happiness Intelligence Learning Sports Trust