How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.
John BanvilleI live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.
John BanvilleThe trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.
John Banville