Strangely enough, the legend of John Brown, who was clearly crazy, helped the abolitionist cause and is thought to have precipitated the… — Justin Cartwright American Copy Share Image
Personally, I have detested Gordon Brown since the moment in 2001 when he tried to make cheap capital out of the Laura… — Justin Cartwright Cheap Copy Share Image
'A Just Defiance' has been a huge success in South Africa. While reading at times like a well-written thriller, its significance is… — Justin Cartwright Apartheid Copy Share Image
Someone once pointed out that there are quite a lot of animals in my books, and I'm sure that is something to… — Justin Cartwright Animals Copy Share Image
I love Franschhoek, and straight off the plane, I went to the incomparable Quartier Francais, on the main street, for breakfast. This… — Justin Cartwright Best Copy Share Image
It's a strange failure of the literary world that Updike never quite received his due. Despite winning two Pulitzers and two National… — Justin Cartwright Failure Copy Share Image
I suppose on the filmmaking side, you can learn how to cram a lot into a small space. But I think that… — Justin Cartwright Advertising Copy Share Image
The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is an astonishing building, designed by Christopher Wren. Its painted ceiling has just been restored so that… — Justin Cartwright Building Copy Share Image
As Eric Weitz argues, the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was not responsible for the Reich; it was a democratic, socially aware and progressive… — Justin Cartwright Ahead Copy Share Image
I was once asked by Jeremy Paxman what is it about celebrity and said that people these days seem to think a… — Justin Cartwright Celebrity Copy Share Image
I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by the time he was… — Justin Cartwright Art Copy Share Image
When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive… — Justin Cartwright Age Copy Share Image
The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as holding most of… — Justin Cartwright Books Copy Share Image
America is the big subject of the second half of the 20th century, tackled in one form or another by all the… — Justin Cartwright America Copy Share Image
We authors certainly don't know what is going to happen to our books. Are they going to disappear into the ether, following… — Justin Cartwright Being Copy Share Image
If I had been brought up in America, I think I would still have had the same sort of job as a… — Justin Cartwright America Copy Share Image
Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel. — Justin Cartwright Books Copy Share Image
The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it. — Justin Cartwright Book 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
'The Infinities' is a shortish book but densely loaded with Nabokovian slyness, gorgeous imagery, and disturbing insights into what it means to… — Justin Cartwright Book Copy Share Image
In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea… — Justin Cartwright Advertising Copy Share Image
In his later years, Ramakrishna took up residence at the Dakshineswar Kali Temple, from where his radiance extended far, even beyond his… — Justin Cartwright Beyond Copy Share Image
Tom Fort, a BBC radio journalist, starts from the assumption that 'many of us have a road that reaches back into our… — Justin Cartwright Books Copy Share Image
Just before the opening of the 20th century, the Collyer brothers, Homer and Langley, are born into great privilege on the Upper… — Justin Cartwright Born Copy Share Image
There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an… — Justin Cartwright Art 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
This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense… — Justin Cartwright Corruption Copy Share Image
'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers… — Justin Cartwright Advertising Copy Share Image
A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view… — Justin Cartwright Books Copy Share Image
Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and… — Justin Cartwright Early Copy Share Image
I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for… — Justin Cartwright Better Copy Share Image
The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely… — Justin Cartwright Africans Copy Share Image
My brother and I were brought up sort of thinking that we were English. I remember hearing the poet Roy Campbell on… — Justin Cartwright Brother Copy Share Image
'Point Omega' starts in an art gallery, where an unnamed man is watching, day after day, a 24-hour version of 'Psycho,' an… — Justin Cartwright Art Copy Share Image
It is true that it is usually for their books that novelists reserve their most considered and ordered thoughts, but the fact… — Justin Cartwright Books Copy Share Image
“The plane touches down on very rough ground: its wheelbarrow wheels bounce and one set of wings rises alarmingly while the other… — Justin Cartwright Film Copy Share Image
I love John Updike immoderately. I am profoundly shocked that he has gone because he was, for me, the greatest American writer… — Justin Cartwright American Copy Share Image
The druidical claims for Stonehenge seem to belong to that bonkers-but-persistent strand of Englishness that believes there is something particularly mystical about… — Justin Cartwright About Copy Share Image
Weimar lasted 14 years, the Third Reich only 12. Yet Weimar is always seen as a prelude to the Third Reich, which… — Justin Cartwright Always Copy Share Image
