“I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.” KnowsSoulSelfLeftLifetimeMy SoulLayersGrimeToffee Author:John Banville
“I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.” SelfUniversityEducatedArrogantImpatient Author:John Banville
“I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.” SelfDoubtSelf-doubt Author:John Banville
“Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self.” DifferentSelfMatterEmotionChildhoodFinishedSomedayAccumulationPolishedNew ExperiencesTiles Author:John Banville
“In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.” WritingSelfOrderLost Author:John Banville
