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About Julian Barnes
English essayist, novelist and short story writer
Julian Barnes is an English essayist, novelist, and short story writer. He is known for work that moves across fiction and essays, with a style that has made him a notable presence in contemporary English literature. His writing spans novels, short stories, and nonfiction essays, showing a range that has kept him widely read. On this site he is represented by 140 quotes, reflecting the reach of his work and the enduring interest in his prose.
More from Julian Barnes (140 quotes) →More quotes by Julian Barnes
- “Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.”Julian Barnes
- “Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more: the belief that any patterns exist. But we ca…”Julian Barnes
- “The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.”Julian Barnes
- “When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”Julian Barnes
More Grief quotes
- “You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.”Curtis Tyrone Jones
- “Grief and anger shrink my world, and I resent this. They seem to paralyze my memory of happier times, of frie…”Roger Zelazny
- “MAGISTRATEDon't men grow old?LYSISTRATANot like women. When a man comes homeThough he's grey as grief he can…”Aristophanes
Existence: more sayings
- “We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a…”Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic s…”Alastair Campbell
- “My mere existence as a member of Congress as a Palestinian causes a lot of fear, because I'm here as a human…”Rashida Tlaib
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Books by Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot
1984
England, England
1999
The Sense of an Ending
2011
Arthur and George
2005
Love, etc
1994