Most people find they have to worry about money; if you don't ever, then in some fundamental way, you are cut off… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Cheap money feels like the most natural thing in the world - if you don't think about why it's so cheap. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
A preoccupation with money and, especially, with what money meant was, in our family, an inherited thing. My father's father, Jack, who… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Money isn't automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you're doing to earn the money before you can conclude that… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
We don't want to think about money in an ideal life; in a well-lived life, money wouldn't be one of our primary… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Once you learn to 'speak' money - which is what I felt I did through the research that led me to write… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Our societies have achieved a general level of prosperity of which most of all the human beings who have ever lived could… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
In the world where people with money overlap with restaurants and try to work out how to make more money, one of… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“The idea of luxury, even the word "luxury," was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that was by definition overpriced, but was… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Obviously you can stash money under your mattress, cut down on hazelnut lattes, but in terms of the larger economic frame of… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
In sport, the money goes to the talent; it goes directly to the worker - unlike a bank, which sits in the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy. — John Lanchester Copy Share
“Bastiat (1801–1850) was a strikingly clear-minded early advocate of what came to be known as liberal economics, whose central idea is that the state… — John Lanchester Copy Share
“What was going on here was something Smitty had seen before: a young person’s first real farewell to the world of school and college,… — John Lanchester Copy Share
“It seemed too as if many of the people were on display, behaving as if they expected to be looked at, as if they… — John Lanchester Copy Share
But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put… — John Lanchester Copy Share
Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are… — John Lanchester Copy Share
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true. — John Lanchester Copy Share
As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are… — John Lanchester Copy Share
The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I find it… — John Lanchester Copy Share
Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the… — John Lanchester Copy Share
'Fine dining.' I'd love to know who coined the term and whether they meant it to be as offputting as it is. The words… — John Lanchester Copy Share
In sport, the money goes to the talent; it goes directly to the worker - unlike a bank, which sits in the middle of… — John Lanchester Copy Share
I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between… — John Lanchester Copy Share
