Julian Barnes Quotes

Julian Barnes — English Writer born on January 19, 1946,

Julian Patrick Barnes is 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... (wikipedia)

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

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.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.