But my own mottos are, “Don’t imagine for a moment that you’re going to be able to express yourself.” ... And most aspiring artists think, “I have something to say.”
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 18 October 2017 source ↗
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John Banville
Novelist; winner of the Booker Prize, 2005
Ireland · b. 1945
John Banville is an Irish novelist and screenwriter who published his first book in 1970. He won the Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea, and also writes crime fiction under the name Benjamin Black.
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Anyway, what’s the point of a plot, you know? Has life got a plot? Not that I know of. So why should a novel have a plot? But it has to have some kind of story. It has to have some kind of structure.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 18 October 2017 source ↗
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