Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes
Julian Patrick Barnesis an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending, and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George. He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 January 1946
book considered fact few george left matter
I briefly considered writing it as a non-fiction book but the fact of the matter is that George left few traces,
asked books happened people talking
Talking It Over' is the only one of my books people asked me what happened next, ... And they disagreed about what happened when the book concluded.
book reading live-your-life
Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer becomes less and less convincing?
book mind way
The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.
book writing doe
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
book reading discovery
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.
book democrat term
I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.
book way doe
But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.
book grind promotion
Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.
book helping certain
To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.
book reality thinking
When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?
book information looks
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.
book life-is
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
book writing helping
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.