Julian Barnes quotes - page 5

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting. (Julian Barnes)
The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable. View quote
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In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence. View quote
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I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death! View quote
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