A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope. — Justin Cartwright Between Copy Share Image
For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material. — Justin Cartwright Disasters Copy Share Image
Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.' — Justin Cartwright Catholic Copy Share Image
So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human. — Justin Cartwright Either Copy Share Image
'The Cauliflower' is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword. — Justin Cartwright Books Copy Share Image
The book that meant most to me was 'The Wind in the Willows.' It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of… — Justin Cartwright Book Copy Share Image
The successful advertising agent is the one who can convince the clients that he knows something they don't. — Justin Cartwright Advertising Copy Share Image
It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree. — Justin Cartwright Been Copy Share Image
It is uncomfortable to be reminded that the Catholic church only removed the reference to 'perfidious Jews' from the Good Friday liturgy… — Justin Cartwright Church Copy Share Image
Historians and journalists always have agendas, but if I want to find out what's going on in South Africa, I read Nadine… — Justin Cartwright Always Copy Share Image
It was my idea to do a two-hour course of barista training. I was keen to learn how to finish off my… — Justin Cartwright Coffee Copy Share Image
I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for… — Justin Cartwright College Copy Share Image
There was loose talk of Enron management practices and reminders of a scandal at the University of Toronto, when a big donor… — Justin Cartwright Big Copy Share Image
I have worshipped Berlin from the day I read 'Two Concepts of Liberty' in South Africa. It seemed to make it respectable… — Justin Cartwright Berlin Copy Share Image
It is surprising how many people who don't read believe they have a book in them. Why? Nobody would imagine that Alfred… — Justin Cartwright Believe Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly… — Justin Cartwright Idea Copy Share Image
Great architects like Taut, Mendelsohn, and Gropius built some astonishing buildings which were to change the way architects around the world thought.… — Justin Cartwright Architecture Copy Share Image
DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said… — Justin Cartwright America Copy Share Image
In the new artisan coffee movement, Jeremy Challender, a 32-year-old Australian who is one of the founders of Prufrock Coffee, explains precision… — Justin Cartwright App Copy Share Image
Nicola Barker is both prodigiously talented and admirably fearless. I have loved her books. But for some time, I had little or… — Justin Cartwright Books Copy Share Image
If I was at home, I'd find myself checking email and looking at the Internet when I should be working. In the… — Justin Cartwright Coffee Copy Share Image
My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in… — Justin Cartwright Auschwitz Copy Share Image
If Franschhoek has a fault, it is in the lavish refurbishment of wine farms and estates which has reached absurd proportions. Some,… — Justin Cartwright Absurd Copy Share Image
This Oscar Pistorius business is interesting. There is this cult of carrying lots of guns and being ready to shoot somebody. There… — Justin Cartwright Business Copy Share Image
“I don't think that, when future generations look at the apartheid struggle, they will see it as quite the momentous literary cauldron… — Justin Cartwright Apartheid Copy Share Image
The great thing about the public is that they're quite capable of believing two absolutely contrary views at the same time. — Justin Cartwright Believing Copy Share Image
Coffee must be treated gently and smoothed out. I hadn't realised it was so temperamental. — Justin Cartwright Coffee Copy Share Image
I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or… — Justin Cartwright Life Copy Share Image
Winning the Whitbread was a very major thing for me. I'd always been well reviewed, but this made me widely read. — Justin Cartwright Always Copy Share Image
Complete barista-standard coffee machines cost from £1,600 to more than £20,000. — Justin Cartwright Coffee Copy Share Image
Germany led the world in photography and film: 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' and 'Metropolis' are works that, to this day, film… — Justin Cartwright Cinema Copy Share Image
You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world… — Justin Cartwright Believe Copy Share Image
The plane approaches Cape Town and, as always, I am astonished by the view of Table Mountain and the surrounding sea. It… — Justin Cartwright Beautiful Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike's, 'The Coup', which is set… — Justin Cartwright Book Copy Share Image
Jim Crace's novels have one thing in common, which is that each is set in an entirely original world. None of these… — Justin Cartwright Connection Copy Share Image
Writing 'Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle' must have been a difficult task because there are no facts. Judas may… — Justin Cartwright Difficult Copy Share Image
'The Cauliflower' is full of these bizarre anecdotes, some of them petty, others moving or whimsical, as its many characters try to… — Justin Cartwright Live Copy Share Image
Helen Zille, formidable leader of the Democratic Alliance, routinely vilified as representing white interests only, is trying to make sure everyone knows… — Justin Cartwright Alliance Copy Share Image
Homer Collyer's chosen form of self-expression is the piano, although late in life, when his hearing also goes, he takes to writing. — Justin Cartwright Hearing Copy Share Image
The point about 'state-of-the-nation' novels is not that they should be about the 'state-of-the-nation', but they should be about people. — Justin Cartwright About Copy Share Image
