John Banville Citas

• Los personajes de ficción están hechos de palabras, no de carne; no tienen libre albedrío, no ejercen volición. Nacen con facilidad y mueren con la misma facilidad.

  John Banville

  Writing, Character, Exercise

  FaceBook post by John Banville from Nov 16, 2012

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• A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

  John Banville

  Integrity, Men, Depends

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• Para la memoria, utilizamos nuestra imaginación. Tomamos unos cuantos hilos del tiempo real y los llevamos con nosotros, luego, como una ostra, creamos una perla a su alrededor.

  John Banville

  Memories, Real, Oysters

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• The past beats inside me like a second heart.

  John Banville

  Heart, Past, Beats

  John Banville (2012). “Possessed of a Past: A John Banville Reader”, p.2, Pan Macmillan

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

  John Banville

  Long, Leaving, Preparation

  John Banville (2008). “The Sea”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• Toda mi vida he mentido. He mentido para escapar, he mentido para que me quisieran, he mentido para colocarme y tener poder; he mentido para mentir. Era una forma de vivir; las mentiras son el casi-anagrama de la vida.

  John Banville

  Lying, Way, Lied

  John Banville (2011). “Shroud”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.

  John Banville

  Individuality, Identity, Looks

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

  John Banville

  Writing, Self, Order

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• A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

  John Banville

  Writing, Plot

  "'A Death In Summer' Starts With A Mysterious Suicide". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 2, 2011.

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• I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

  John Banville

  Hopeless, Century, 19th Century

  "John Banville: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

  John Banville

  Past, Thinking, Live In The Present

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• Todo lo que hacemos está teñido de la certeza de que puede ser la última vez que lo hagamos, y eso hace que lo que hacemos sea increíblemente dulce.

  John Banville

  Sweet, May, Lasts

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• If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

  John Banville

  Invention, Sentences, Humans

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• 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.

  John Banville

  Art, Ideas, Poetry

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• What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.

  John Banville

  Suficiencia

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• 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.

  John Banville

  New Experiences, Self, Childhood

  FaceBook post by John Banville from Oct 15, 2016

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• To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

  John Banville

  Falling In Love, Cities, Firsts

  John Banville (2009). “The Untouchable”, p.31, Vintage

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• Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

  John Banville

  Writing, Civilization, Long

  "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.

  John Banville

  Rain, Waiting, Mind

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• Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

  John Banville

  Trying, Keep Trying, Duty

  "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, The Paris Review, Issue 188, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2009.

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• Leí a Nietzsche cuando era adolescente y luego volví a leerlo cuando tenía treinta y tantos años, y su voz me habló directamente. Nietzsche es un artista literario soberbio.

  John Banville

  Teenager, Reading, Artist

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• 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

  Generations, Littles, Life Goes On

  FaceBook post by John Banville from Dec 16, 2012

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• What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

  John Banville

  Grief, Ocean, Weight

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• That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

  John Banville

  Life, Hate, I Hate

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• Con las novelas policíacas, es delicioso tener protagonistas a los que puedo volver a ver libro tras libro. Es como tener una familia ficticia.

  John Banville

  Book, Crime Novels, Protagonists

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