“Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.” WayArtIdeasHelpingPoetrySoundMagicAwakeningCombinationPoetry IsSensationsNeverthelessDefiniteSorcery Author:John Banville
“The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.” WayShouldBookBigsPrizePopular Book Author:John Banville
“All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.” WayLyingLiedPlacementLiving A LieAnagrams Book:Shroud Source: Shroud
“The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start clamouring for attention when you least expect it, like a mad baby.” WayUsedAttentionReadyBabyMachinesMadTelephones 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
