When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike's, 'The Coup', which is set… — Justin Cartwright Book Copy Share Image
The book that meant most to me was 'The Wind in the Willows.' It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of… — Justin Cartwright Book 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
Jim Crace's novels have one thing in common, which is that each is set in an entirely original world. None of these… — Justin Cartwright Connection Copy Share Image
Historians and journalists always have agendas, but if I want to find out what's going on in South Africa, I read Nadine… — Justin Cartwright 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 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
'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
I love Franschhoek, and straight off the plane, I went to the incomparable Quartier Francais, on the main street, for breakfast. This… — Justin Cartwright 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 Apartheid 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
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
'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
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
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
Helen Zille, formidable leader of the Democratic Alliance, routinely vilified as representing white interests only, is trying to make sure everyone knows… — Justin Cartwright Alliance Copy Share Image
It is uncomfortable to be reminded that the Catholic church only removed the reference to 'perfidious Jews' from the Good Friday liturgy… — Justin Cartwright Church Copy Share Image
It is surprising how many people who don't read believe they have a book in them. Why? Nobody would imagine that Alfred… — Justin Cartwright 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 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
You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Germany led the world in photography and film: 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' and 'Metropolis' are works that, to this day, film… — Justin Cartwright Cinema Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly… — Justin Cartwright Idea Copy Share Image
I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for… — Justin Cartwright College Copy Share Image
It was my idea to do a two-hour course of barista training. I was keen to learn how to finish off my… — Justin Cartwright Coffee Copy Share Image
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
I have worshipped Berlin from the day I read 'Two Concepts of Liberty' in South Africa. It seemed to make it respectable… — Justin Cartwright Berlin 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
The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is an astonishing building, designed by Christopher Wren. Its painted ceiling has just been restored so that… — Justin Cartwright 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 fascination with Judas has persisted despite the fact that there is no evidence of the hard facts of his life. Even… — Justin Cartwright Corruption Copy Share Image
Franschhoek - French Corner - is a place which serves South Africans as a kind of sophisticated fantasy, an alternative version of… — Justin Cartwright Corner 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
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 Copy Share Image
If Franschhoek has a fault, it is in the lavish refurbishment of wine farms and estates which has reached absurd proportions. Some,… — Justin Cartwright Absurd Copy Share Image
My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in… — Justin Cartwright Auschwitz Copy Share Image
The plane approaches Cape Town and, as always, I am astonished by the view of Table Mountain and the surrounding sea. It… — Justin Cartwright Beautiful 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
This Oscar Pistorius business is interesting. There is this cult of carrying lots of guns and being ready to shoot somebody. There… — Justin Cartwright Business Copy Share Image
Writing 'Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle' must have been a difficult task because there are no facts. Judas may… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
