Julian Barnes Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

  Julian Barnes

  Literature, Turns

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.15, Random House

• Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

  Julian Barnes

  Writing, Literature, Realizing

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

• 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

  Art, Order, Different

  Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• [Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

  Julian Barnes

  Beautiful, Lying, Facts

  Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.

  Julian Barnes

  Book, Literature, Hawthorne

  "Conversation: Julian Barnes, Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize". "Art Beat" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 8, 2011.

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