John Lanchester
"My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about."
John Lanchester
"Cheap money feels like the most natural thing in the world - if you don't think about why it's so cheap."
John Lanchester
"I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books."
John Lanchester
"As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take."
John Lanchester
"Germany has to put the broader European interest on the same level as its own national interest, or the euro is toast."
John Lanchester
"Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it."
John Lanchester
"I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year."
John Lanchester
"'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true."
John Lanchester
"The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones."
John Lanchester
"My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy."
John Lanchester
"Security is a complicated idea and one with an immense potential to trap us - that was one lesson I learnt from my father."
John Lanchester
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