John Banville

“I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.”

“I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.”

“With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.”

“Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.”