[On The Sea being filmed] It's not a blockbuster and it's n… - John Banville

" "
[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.

John Banville

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About John Banville

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".

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Benjamin Black • William John Banville

All quotes from John Banville Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like John Banville:

Robertson Davies Martin Amis Grace Paley Caitlín R. Kiernan Nadine Gordimer

Additional quotes by John Banville

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

As a boy I was very solitary but blissfully happy. We lived on the edge of town in Wexford and I wandered the fields with my dog, declaiming Keats to the trees.

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.

[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 … - John Banville

About John Banville

Also Known As

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Additional quotes by John Banville

Unlimited Quote Collections