Because the Spanish eat so crazily late - anybody who's been to Spain has had the experience of sitting down at 9:30… — John Lanchester Experience Copy Share Image
For a while, I had a rule of no smartphone in bed, but now I've upgraded to no smartphone in the bedroom.… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I don't answer the phone or do my email; I don't do anything until I've got the day's writing done. I have… — John Lanchester Day Copy Share Image
'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality,… — John Lanchester Abstract Copy Share Image
As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks… — John Lanchester Business Copy Share Image
Inequality in the developed world fell for most of the 20th century; we can make it fall for most of the 21st… — 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 Language Copy Share Image
You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but… — 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 Desire Copy Share Image
“The white policeman was a man who gave an impression of heaviness. It wasn't that he was fat, but he sagged as… — John Lanchester Burdens Copy Share Image
If European monetary policy is run according to German interests, huge structural imbalances will accumulate. The Germans will then either have to… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
It seems to me obviously axiomatic that markets are not magical, that they're organised in a range of regulated entities created by… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“A solicitor had looked up at the sky, swept blue by the wind, and had a sudden sense of religious consolation, a… — John Lanchester Consciousness Copy Share Image
“I myself have always disliked being called a "genius." It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political… — John Lanchester Economics Copy Share Image
“Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth--or, as… — John Lanchester Dreamers Copy Share Image
I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything… — 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
Most British tapas bars aren't bars at all. They're restaurants that specialise in tapas. Nothing wrong with that, but it's a bit… — John Lanchester British Copy Share Image
Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema;… — John Lanchester Art 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 Christmas Copy Share Image
The Chinese are much too sensible to like turkey - come to think of it, I don't think I've ever encountered turkey… — John Lanchester Asia 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 my view, a review should be like talking to a friend who's just asked you, 'What was it like?' You're giving… — John Lanchester Experience Copy Share Image
In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great… — John Lanchester Behavior Copy Share Image
Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains,… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
'Fine dining.' I'd love to know who coined the term and whether they meant it to be as offputting as it is.… — John Lanchester Customer Copy Share Image
One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to… — John Lanchester Books Copy Share Image
During the 20th century, the greatest danger to European stability was Germany's sense of its special destiny. During the 21st century, the… — John Lanchester Danger Copy Share Image
Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract… — John Lanchester Abstract Copy Share Image
Nando's is a casual restaurant rather than a fast-food one - another aspirational touch. The food is energetically spiced, where so many… — John Lanchester Competition Copy Share Image
“From his dealings with his mother, Smitty had learned the following truth: the person doing the worrying experiences it as a form… — John Lanchester Fear Copy Share Image
“In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had unreasonably decided that you… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
At the risk of being old-fartish, I like old-school wines that taste the way the winemaker intended, as opposed to organic and… — John Lanchester Being 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
I'm an omniviorous reader, but I don't read what could overlap with my own work. It's like tuning a radio frequency -… — John Lanchester Books 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
