Top 15 Quotes by John Boyne

About John Boyne

These are some quotes by Irish author John Boyne Novelist, who was born on April 30, 1971.

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

John Boyne

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

John Boyne

I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.

I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.

John Boyne

Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.

Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.

John Boyne

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

John Boyne

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