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
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
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
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
'The Cauliflower' is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword. — Justin Cartwright Books 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
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
I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did try, it… — Justin Cartwright Always 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
I thought that, post-apartheid, there would be absolutely no interest in South Africa. That has been both true and untrue. The major… — Justin Cartwright Interest Copy Share Image
In Sydney, I gave what was billed as a masterclass to bright students of writing at the University of Sydney. But the… — Justin Cartwright Books 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
James McBride's 'The Good Lord Bird' is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown,… — Justin Cartwright Bird Copy Share Image
'Homer and Langley' is the work of E. L. Doctorow's old age. There are fewer Homeric references than you might have expected,… — Justin Cartwright Age 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
The ANC was the product of a much earlier South Africa, a gradualist and non-tribal multi-racial organisation, driven to violence by the… — Justin Cartwright Government 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
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
'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
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
'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
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 Apartheid Copy Share Image
