If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
You cannot exercise and be amused about it. You cannot integrate the dying bug into your core workout and hold to the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal. — 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That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing.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
