John Banville: Quotes about 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: Who cares whodunnit? (2013)

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

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

“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, The Art of Fiction No. 200 (2009)