We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the l… - John Banville

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We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

John Banville

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John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist and journalist. He is recognised for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators. His stated ambition is to give his prose "the kind of denseness and thickness that poetry has".

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Alternative Names: Benjamin Black • William John Banville

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We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. - John Banville

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