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Andoya is in a different world, set at the northern edge of Europe in what seems to be a time and weather of its own.
— John Burnside
I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.
— John Burnside
My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.
— John Burnside
Poetry stands or falls by its music.
— John Burnside
A mad person isn't someone who sees what isn't there; he's someone who sees what is there but that others can't see. I really believe that.
— John Burnside
Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.
— John Burnside
Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down.
— John Burnside
The older I get, the happier my childhood becomes.
— John Burnside
Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.
— John Burnside
Something was seriously wrong with Burnside. Either his mental apparatus wasn't functioning or he was grossly incompetent. Probably both.
— Edward J. Stackpole
No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world.
— John Burnside
Meet every person with the assumption that they are your equal.
— Julian Burnside
It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.
— Ambrose Burnside
The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.
— John Burnside
I didn't mean to kill nobody ... I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord.
— R.L. Burnside
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
— John Burnside
And I wake, in the cage of my bones,on the same cold ground. — John Burnside
Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.
— John Burnside
My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
— John Burnside
The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.
— John Burnside
He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [ ... ] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22]
— John Burnside
Sometimes, when the wind hits hard and icicles form on the sea cliffs, we can all come together - and at those times, we are at our best.
— John Burnside
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.
— John Burnside
Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation
— Julian Burnside
What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.
— John Burnside
If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.
— John Burnside
'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.
— John Burnside
One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'
— John Burnside
My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
— John Burnside
Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.
— George B. McClellan