John Banville Book Quotations

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.

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.

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

I am the worst judge of my books.

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

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

the public adulation for Saturday was worrying because here was a 9/11 book that everyone was praising to the sky, making into a bestseller, and it was not a good book for McEwan, who is a very, very good writer. But maybe I shouldn't have been so pompous.

This is a great surprise and a great pleasure. Any one of these books could have won. To my colleagues I say just hang around and it will come. I have hung around for many years.