I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.
John BanvilleWith the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.
John BanvilleI've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
John BanvilleAll one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one wants to do. One has nothing to say about the world, or society, or morals or politics or anything else. One just wants to get the damn thing done, you know? Kafka had it right when he said that the artist is the man who has nothing to say. It's true. You get the thing done, but you don't actually have anything to communicate, apart from the object itself.
John Banville