I’m full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure. John Banville Read Quote
Office life is very, very strange. It’s like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you’re embarrassed. John Banville Read Quote
I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don’t read them. John Banville Read Quote
I don’t make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people. John Banville Read Quote
We’re constantly losing – we’re losing time, we’re losing ourselves. I don’t feel for the things I lost. John Banville Read Quote
The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that’s the way it should be. John Banville Read Quote
My work is frequently described as cold, which is baffling, since it seems to me embarrassingly, shame-makingly, scandalously warm. I find my work filled with sentiment, and I can’t imagine why people find it cold. John Banville Read Quote
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 Banville Read Quote
