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They filmed it down in Wexford and I visited the set for about half an hour. I don't usually go near the set, because there's nothing for a writer to do there and you're constantly getting in the way. If I give a book to the movies, it's theirs. Writers often whinge about being betrayed by the movies – I have no sympathy for that. If you don't want a movie to be made, then don't sell your book to the movies.
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I don't know anything about myself. Put it this way, there is no self. I believe that we're a compendium of personalities. We're whoever we meet. We go through the day being who we think we should be and who we think we'd like to be.
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How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.
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And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.
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Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
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December 8, 1945
(age 78)
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William John Banville, who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter.
Known for:
The Sea (2005)
The Book of Evidence (1989)
The Untouchable (1997)
Ancient Light (2012)
The Infinities (2009)
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