“Arabella was good at making life seem easy, except when she suddenly and dramatically wasn't.” — John Lanchester Ease Copy Share Image
The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little. — John Lanchester Business Copy Share Image
It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a… — John Lanchester Breaths Copy Share Image
Because the Spanish eat so crazily late - anybody who's been to Spain has had the experience of sitting down at 9:30… — John Lanchester Experience Copy Share Image
During the 20th century, the greatest danger to European stability was Germany's sense of its special destiny. During the 21st century, the… — John Lanchester Danger Copy Share Image
The Internet makes writing about restaurants easier and more interesting in quite a few ways, one of the main ones being to… — John Lanchester Being Copy Share Image
A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people… — John Lanchester Around Copy Share Image
It seems to me obviously axiomatic that markets are not magical, that they're organised in a range of regulated entities created by… — John Lanchester Conduct Copy Share Image
Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject. — John Lanchester Capitalism Copy Share Image
To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the… — John Lanchester Adventure Copy Share Image
At the risk of being old-fartish, I like old-school wines that taste the way the winemaker intended, as opposed to organic and… — John Lanchester Being Copy Share Image
It has been a masterful fight-back by the big banks. We the paying public can't do anything much except admit defeat and… — John Lanchester Accurate Copy Share Image
Nando's is a casual restaurant rather than a fast-food one - another aspirational touch. The food is energetically spiced, where so many… — John Lanchester Competition Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money. — John Lanchester Finance Copy Share Image
I think 'community,' in the sense in which politicians use, it is largely a cant term. — John Lanchester Community Copy Share Image
'Whoops!' was a spin-off from 'Capital.' I had the research and wanted to place it somewhere. — John Lanchester Had Copy Share Image
The slogans of globalisation are 'Get on your bike' and 'The world is flat.' People who want to get on have to… — John Lanchester Globalisation Copy Share Image
“And now here was Arabella, making him feel worse. Maybe that was what she always did; maybe she always made him feel… — John Lanchester Marriage Copy Share Image
“On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of… — John Lanchester Art Copy Share Image
“London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and… — John Lanchester Display Copy Share Image
Cheap money feels like the most natural thing in the world - if you don't think about why it's so cheap. — John Lanchester Cheap Copy Share Image
“It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away… — John Lanchester Aging Copy Share Image
“The economic metaphor came to be applied to every aspect of modern life, especially the areas where it simply didn't belong. In… — John Lanchester Economics Copy Share Image
A preoccupation with money and, especially, with what money meant was, in our family, an inherited thing. My father's father, Jack, who… — John Lanchester Born Copy Share Image
