Who said "Solitude is where the self becomes visible."?

This quote is attributed to John Banville.

Solitude is where the self becomes visible. - John Banville

"Solitude is where the self becomes visible."

John Banville Solitude

Novelist Irish Born 1945 (age 81)

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"Memory is a form of forgetting."

"We are all wanderers on this earth."

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"Sometimes being the best means being the loneliest."

"Solitude gives us time to reflect on what matters"

"I'm not good with people, never have been."

"I feel like I'm disappearing."