“When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.” KnowsCertainLaborSentencesFinished Author:John Banville
“All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.” ArtCertainLevelsTragedyEntertainment Author:John Banville
“You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, you’ll weep for nothing, pine for what’s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.” ThinkingFeelsWellsHeartEnoughMomentsTogetherRememberNightCertainVoiceForeverCryRainEveningThis LifeEmptinessShakesFadesApril Author:John Banville
“These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere.” WorldWayMeanCertainCuresThese DaysDose Author:John Banville
