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

Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.

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

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