Джон Бэнвилл цитаты

„Протестантизм – это не столько религия, сколько реакция на религию.“

Источник: Снег

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„В этих старых домах нужно было всего лишь замолчать и замереть, чтобы слиться с обстановкой, как ящерица на каменной стене.“

Источник: Снег

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„Ты либо сам творишь удачу, либо тебе волею судьбы представляется счастливый случай.“

Источник: Снег

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„Пути дикой природы неисповедимы.“

Источник: Снег

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„Не думай, сказал он себе, просто существуй – как животное.“

Источник: Снег

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„Нет конца гротескным деталям жизни.“

Источник: Снег

Джон Бэнвилл цитаты

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„А ведь и правда ничего не случилось,ничего,ничего..просто огромный мир опять равнодушно пожал плечами.“

Источник: Снег

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„Не диво ль дивное – логика вещей?“

Источник: Море

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„Нет конца гротескным деталям жизни.“

Источник: Кеплер

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“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”

Источник: Кеплер

Джон Бэнвилл: Цитаты на английском языке

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”

John Banville The Sea

Источник: The Sea (2005, ISBN 0-330-48328-5.

“Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.”

John Banville The Sea

Источник: The Sea

“Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.”

John Banville The Sea

Источник: The Sea

“In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.”

John Banville The Sea

Источник: The Sea

“When I won the Booker Prize, I said that it was nice to see a work of art winning this prize and I've never been forgiven for that. When you get a prize, you're suppose to be humble. Somebody was interviewing me and said, 'This is a great day for Ireland'. I said, 'Why? Ireland didn't do it, I did it.' I wasn't forgiven for that either. I don't wear the green jersey and I don't hobnob with Michael D in the Park, although I quite like Michael D.”

“Fiction is just a constant torment, and an embarrassment. I loathe my fiction. I have a fantasy when I'm passing a bookstore that I could click my fingers and all my books would go blank, so that I could start again and get them right.”

John Banville: Who cares whodunnit? (2013)

“My friends tell me I must stop saying in public that I ‘hate all my novels’. What I mean is that I am profoundly dissatisfied with everything I have done simply because it is not good enough by my standards. But my standard is perfection, and as we know, perfection is not allowed to such as us. On the other hand, I begin every new book in the complete conviction that this time, this time I shall get it right. Rationally I know this will not be so, but art has its reasons.”

John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200 (2009)

“The force of the idea was such that I drew the car to the side of the road and stopped and, for some reason, laughed. It was a loud laugh, unsteady, and sounded, even to my own ears, slightly maniacal. Thinking back now, I realise it was less a laugh than the birth-cry of my dark and twin brother Benjamin Black.”

Fully Booked: Q & A with John Banville (2012)

“I hesitate to talk about Czech food. […] The people are very sweet, wonderfully cultured, very friendly, but my God how they eat that food I do not know. It is surely the most disgusting cuisine in the world.”

John Banville on the birth of his dark twin, Benjamin Black (2011)

“I'm doing my best to not be too rude about it, but oh my God that Czech food…”

John Banville: Using words to paint pictures of "magical" Prague (2006)

“I suppose many people in Ireland would regard me as being more a European writer than an Irish writer. I don't think this is so.”

John Banville: Using words to paint pictures of "magical" Prague (2006)

“The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant.”

John Banville: claiming Kafka as an Irish writer (2011)

“Coming from a tiny island, it's very exciting to be at sea in Central Europe in the sense of vast stretches of land all around one. We don't get that in Ireland.”

About the Man Booker Prize
John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200 (2009)

“I don't know what citizens of Prague must feel about these endless lines of tourists tramping over their streets.”

John Banville: claiming Kafka as an Irish writer (2011)

“A book at the very start comes to me as a nebulous geometric form, a kind of tension in space that has to be resolved. The resolution is effected by fleshing out the form with character, plot, dialogue, etc. But the original structure perseveres throughout, even when, or perhaps especially when, I am not conscious of it being at work. Art is a mysterious business.”

John Banville: claiming Kafka as an Irish writer (2011)

“Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.”

Fully Booked: Q & A with John Banville (2012)

“We cannot all afford a farm in Cuba or a suite at the George V in newly liberated Paris, and more often than not must strive to forge our clean, well-lighted sentences at a folding table wedged between the baby's cot and the dining table.”

Oblique dreamer (2000)

“The older I get, the more confused I get. I used to think that age would bring wisdom. It doesn't, it just brings confusion. But I find that this confusion is artistically useful. It's a kind of progression, a negative progression. It's moving into areas that you didn't know were there. It becomes more dreamlike all the time. When I was starting out as a novelist, I would have been furious if anyone said to me that novels are dream-like or that they're doing things the novelist didn't know he was doing. Now, I find that it's absolutely true.”

Writers' rooms: John Banville (2007)

“I like to dress conservatively because then the outrageous things you say are even more outrageous.”

Oblique dreamer (2000)

“I feel that over the past 15 years, there has been a steady move toward more populist work. I do feel - and of course I'm completely biased - that this year was a return to the better days of the 80s and early 90s. It was a very good short list and a decent jury; it didn't have any stand-up comedians or media celebs on it, and I think that's what the Man Booker prize should be. There are plenty of other rewards for middle-brow fiction. There should be one decent prize for [pause] real books.”

John Banville: Who cares whodunnit? (2013)

“Certain moments remain in the mind with such force and clearness that one suspects they must be invented; that they are not held in the memory but generated out of the imagination.”

14th time lucky (2005)

“My present study - a word that always makes me uneasy, I am not sure why - is a small apartment in a huge, anonymous, quadrilateral block in Dublin city centre. My window, the one I do not look out of, gives on to a courtyard where no one ever goes, and where the silence is day-long and almost pastoral. When I first began to come here to work, a dozen years ago, I used to shut my door on entering each morning and put the chain on. The place is clean, or cleanish, and, yes, well lighted. Here I am unassailable. Or so I like to imagine.”

John Banville on the birth of his dark twin, Benjamin Black (2011)

“I drive from home to my office, a small apartment on the river in the center of Dublin. I write there from 9 a. m. to lunchtime, I take a simple lunch—bread, cheese, nice cup of tea—work until 6 p. m., then home for dinner. Viewed from outside my head it is a singularly dull and uneventful day, but inside my head … aaah.”

Writers' rooms: John Banville (2007)

“I could have kept [writing "Irish" novels such as Birchwood] and probably had a good deal more success than I did, especially on this side of the Atlantic. But you have to try to do many things. You have to try to do things that you actually think you're incapable of.”

How I Write: John Banville on ‘Ancient Light,’ Nabokov, and Dublin (2012)

“One must try to keep a sensible perspective and not take oneself too seriously.”

Once More Admired Than Bought, A Writer Finally Basks in Success (1990)

“Ambiguity is the essence of Irish writing, I think.”

Fully Booked: Q & A with John Banville (2012)

“Wodehouse is very interesting. There must be all kinds of darknesses in that man's life.”

Oblique dreamer (2000)

“[On The Sea being filmed] It's not a blockbuster and it's not going to earn half a billion in the first weekend, but it's a work of art and I'm very pleased with it.”

Oblique dreamer (2000)

“If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?”

John Banville: Who cares whodunnit? (2013)