Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist. — James Lasdun Copy Share
“She waded into the water, splashing it on her waist and shoulders before kicking herself free of the ground and plunging in. She swam… — James Lasdun Copy Share
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun Copy Share
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a… — James Lasdun Copy Share
“People are always in various stages of different dramas when you encounter them: freshly embarked on some, halfway or more through others. One is… — James Lasdun Copy Share
To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters for me… — James Lasdun Copy Share
“...for a moment he seemed to see himself as if in a dreamlike film, surrounded by kindred spirits at the warm center of some… — James Lasdun Copy Share
There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers. — James Lasdun Copy Share
I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the… — James Lasdun Copy Share
For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious… — James Lasdun Copy Share
I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total… — James Lasdun Copy Share
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates. — James Lasdun Copy Share
America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me. Being of… — James Lasdun Copy Share
There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds. — James Lasdun Copy Share
“And then finally there was that sense of almost supernatural kinship that exists often between people who seem on the surface quite unalike but… — James Lasdun Copy Share
