John Lanchester : (5)

" I remember, the first few years here, I didn’t like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around. " - John Lanchester

" I write non-fiction quicker, and I write it on a computer. Fiction I write longhand, and that helps make it clear that it comes from a slightly different part of the brain, I think. " - John Lanchester

" Nobody in the developing world is going to take, as an answer to their aspirations, the developed world’s reply: ‘Sorry, you can’t; we’ve already used it all up.’ To earn the right to look the developing world in the eye and start this conversation, we need a reassessment of how we live and what we want. " - John Lanchester

" I grew up mainly in the Far East, where my father worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which was then a small, well-run colonial institution and not the global colossus it is today. " - John Lanchester

" Once you learn to ‘speak’ money – which is what I felt I did through the research that led me to write ‘Whoops!’ – you start to see it at work all around you. It’s like a language, a code written on the surface of things; it’s in flow all around us, all the time. " - John Lanchester