John Banville: Quotes about thinking (page 2)

John Banville is Irish writer. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.

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“I don't know anything about myself. Put it this way, there is no self. I believe that we're a compendium of personalities. We're whoever we meet. We go through the day being who we think we should be and who we think we'd like to be.”

John Banville

John Banville: Who cares whodunnit? (2013)

Way , Thinking , Personality

“I'm a little older now and I think I've lightened up a bit as I'm getting older.”

John Banville

John Banville: claiming Kafka as an Irish writer (2011)

Thinking

“For me, a line has to sing before it does anything else. The great thrill is when a sentence that starts out being completely plain suddenly begins to sing, rising far above itself and above any expectation I might have had for it. That's what keeps me going on those dark December days when I think about how I could be living instead of writing.”

John Banville

John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200 (2009)

Thinking , Singing