The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
Julian BarnesTag: politics patriotism government
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
Julian BarnesTag: writing writers creativity
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
Julian BarnesTag: writing writers creativity
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.
Julian BarnesTag: writing writers creativity readers
Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.
Julian BarnesTag: writing writers creativity
How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?
Julian BarnesTag: references
You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.
Julian BarnesTag: language abstraction
When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.
Julian BarnesWell, 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 BarnesTag: writing writers literature creativity
Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.
Julian BarnesTag: clarity
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