'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 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
“But the thing which had made him fall for her, fall properly, was the way she seemed so calm and so quiet… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did. — John Lanchester 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 Copy Share Image
I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“All the Kamals were fluent in irritation. They loved each other but were almost always annoyed by each other, in ways that… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form… — 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
