“I was just not cut out to be an American journalist. In England, I could phone my editor and say 'Do you want an interview with X?' and get an immediate yes or no. At Vanity Fair I had to… — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have. — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil. — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect… — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
“I suspect this is always the way with conmen: they don’t even have to construct a whole story, their victims fill in the gaps,… — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
“...Everything I had learned or assimilated from my parents I now regarded as unreliable, and needing to be rethought from scratch. In fact, I… — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
“...I’m never exactly a slave to facts at the best of times. But does it matter? Who owns memories after all?” — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
“I was just not cut out to be an American journalist. In England, I could phone my editor and say 'Do you want an… — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do. — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
“I think people who try to run their marriages according to other people's expectations are insane. It is quite hard enough to keep a… — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
“If I could communicate only by words on a page, how much more satisfactory I would be!” — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
