For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people will root, has never had anything to do with why I read or write fiction. As long as… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
“She waded into the water, splashing it on her waist and shoulders before kicking herself free of the ground and plunging in. She swam… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
“People are always in various stages of different dramas when you encounter them: freshly embarked on some, halfway or more through others. One is… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters for me… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
“...for a moment he seemed to see himself as if in a dreamlike film, surrounded by kindred spirits at the warm center of some… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
