" We have giants or nothing. There are no mediocre writers. It is like the Easter Island statues are standing behind us saying ‘what have you done little man?’
— John Banville on the anxiety of influence as an Irish writer.
" We have giants or nothing. There are no mediocre writers. It is like the Easter Island statues are standing behind us saying ‘what have you done little man?’
— John Banville on the anxiety of influence as an Irish writer.