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.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

John Boyne

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

John Boyne

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

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

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

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

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

It's a wonderful thing to write for children.

It's a wonderful thing to write for children.

John Boyne

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

John Boyne

I suppose books are my real passion in life.

I suppose books are my real passion in life.

John Boyne

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