For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Every time I criticize the anti-Zionists, they say, 'You are trying to silence us.' I don't deny there are some people who… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I am happiest now. There's nothing like running out of time to make you realise you're in the right skin, with the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There mustn't be a moment when we turn on the TV and think, 'There's Trump in the White House' - that must… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“They didn't think he was simple-minded. If anything they thought him a little too clever. But there are times in the history… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I normally take a long time finding titles. I finish the book and go into sweats for months afterwards trying to think… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I find Australia compelling and vexatious at the best of times; I've never been able to get it out of my system… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The queue and the fan are, of course, closely related in that fans will queue any length of time in any weather… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
My mother's side taught me to be a little bit afraid of everything. For a long time, I was quiet and cautious.… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't suppose for one moment that there's a single one of Trump's voters that would be anything but confirmed in their… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal.… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I've been married three times. I married the girl next door when I was 22, and I wasn't a good husband, but… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The novel is a thing of irony and ambiguity. That's at the heart of 'J', a world that has stopped arguing with itself. We… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
