Julian Barnes Quotes

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

There is no such thing as standing still.

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

My life has been about big changes.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Maybe we all change over time.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Life itself is exponential.

Early convictions must give way to more mature ones.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.

I was so young when I started, my taste has changed and developed, and I've gone from being a little bit safe to trying different things.

I'm that type of person that if I feel like I'm doing the same thing in life, then I'm stuck. Always gotta be moving and doing something different.

If I was staying the same, then I wouldn't be evolving and changing and that would be boring and that would be unhealthy.

When you look at me in the beginning of '96 and at the end of '96, I'm two different people.