“T. S. Eliot said it is no business of the artist to think. I presume he meant it's only the business of the artist to feel, but I like the notion of there being a mind behind the fiction that I read and that I write.”

—  John Banville

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

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