I have sane friends, solvent friends, foodie friends, and friends who can take time off in the week, but I don't know… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
By the time I was three years old, I'd lived at 10 different addresses in six different countries. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I have a horror of going down dead ends, which you can easily do with a novel, spending months on it and… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“No, Roger had not seen the funny side. But there had been a moment when, after looking at his watch, he had… — 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
Once I've properly finished a book, my ideal state of being would be to never think about it again. But with 'Capital,'… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“It's always the next pay raise, the next purchase, the next place you move to or go on holiday which will make… — 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
