213 Quotes by John Banville

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

I am the worst judge of my books.

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.