Books Quote by Howard Jacobson

Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability.

— Howard Jacobson

There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the…

— Howard Jacobson

The novel is a thing of irony and ambiguity. That's at the heart of 'J', a world that has stopped arguing with itself. We…

— Howard Jacobson

I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English…

— Howard Jacobson

How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty…

— Howard Jacobson

It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going…

— Howard Jacobson

For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of…

— Howard Jacobson

Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.

— Howard Jacobson

That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't…

— Howard Jacobson

“Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be…

— Howard Jacobson

The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.

— Howard Jacobson

To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.

— Howard Jacobson