I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist. — James Lasdun Alone Copy Share Image
“She waded into the water, splashing it on her waist and shoulders before kicking herself free of the ground and plunging in.… — James Lasdun Strong arms Copy Share Image
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 Any Copy Share Image
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to… — James Lasdun Best Copy Share Image
“People are always in various stages of different dramas when you encounter them: freshly embarked on some, halfway or more through others.… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters… — James Lasdun Character Copy Share Image
“...for a moment he seemed to see himself as if in a dreamlike film, surrounded by kindred spirits at the warm center… — James Lasdun Business Copy Share Image
There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers. — James Lasdun Any Copy Share Image
I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either.… — James Lasdun Always Copy Share Image
For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in… — James Lasdun About Copy Share Image
I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence… — James Lasdun Broke Copy Share Image
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates. — James Lasdun Any Copy Share Image
America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me.… — James Lasdun America Copy Share Image
There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds. — James Lasdun About Copy Share Image
“And then finally there was that sense of almost supernatural kinship that exists often between people who seem on the surface quite… — James Lasdun Life Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people… — James Lasdun Alive Copy Share Image
Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't… — James Lasdun Because Copy Share Image
What the Internet offers is this completely unfiltered transmission of thought to thought, of psyche to psyche, and whatever you're feeling, you… — James Lasdun Actual Copy Share Image
