Julian Barnes Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. January 19, 1946
Birthday: January 19
I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true.
source: "Conversation: Julian Barnes, Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize". "Art Beat" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 8, 2011. 
topic: Clever, Lying, Differences, Eyewitnesses, Epigraphs
