I’ve always been interested in rootedness – mainly, I suppose, because I had very little experience of it. John Lanchester Read Quote
The slogans of globalisation are ‘Get on your bike’ and ‘The world is flat.’ People who want to get on have to be willing to move, often and unhesitatingly, at the behest of their employer or to seek work. John Lanchester Read Quote
Whoops!’ was a spin-off from ‘Capital.’ I had the research and wanted to place it somewhere. John Lanchester Read Quote
I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth. John Lanchester Read Quote
The Internet makes writing about restaurants easier and more interesting in quite a few ways, one of the main ones being to do with the mundane business of checking what’s on the menu. John Lanchester Read Quote
My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way. John Lanchester Read Quote
A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won’t leave me alone. John Lanchester Read Quote
The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I find it absolutely terrifying that – something about the way the machine just kind of coughed up money with no difficulty. John Lanchester Read Quote
One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants – one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes – is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of the business, they tell you about it. John Lanchester Read Quote
