Julian Barnes Quotes

I do not regret one moment of my life.

I would not change anything I've done or what I've lived, and with whom I have lived it.

I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

I don't think my life has been badly lived - but I don't think of it that way. And nor should I.

This has been a wonderful life, absolutely terrific. There are very few things that I would go back and do differently, if I had that control.

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

If I was to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing.

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.