Top 29 Quotes by Julian Barnes

About Julian Barnes

These are some quotes by English author Julian Barnes Writer, who was born on January 19, 1946.

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

Julian Barnes

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

Julian Barnes

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

Julian Barnes

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

Julian Barnes

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

Julian Barnes

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

Julian Barnes

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Julian Barnes

It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.

Julian Barnes

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

Julian Barnes

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

Julian Barnes

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