John Lanchester Quotes

London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and groomed, and shaped, and washed clean, and put on display as if the whole city was for sale.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

It’s as if people used the invention

Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.