“I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.”
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Famous Julian Barnes Quotes
“In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.”
Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes
Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes
“The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.”
“There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.”
“Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.”
Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes
“Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.”
Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes