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
“London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
