British - Journalist | February 25, 1962 -
'Whoops!' was a spin-off from 'Capital.' I had the research and wanted to place it somewhere.
John Lanchester
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It seems to me obviously axiomatic that markets are not magical, that they're organised in a range of regulated entities created by men. We decide in what we will have markets, and we decide how the rules work and how they'll conduct themselves.
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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.
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Obviously you can stash money under your mattress, cut down on hazelnut lattes, but in terms of the larger economic frame of our lives, we have very little agency. About one of the only things you can do is understand it.
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You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.
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Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.
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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.
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I've always been interested in rootedness - mainly, I suppose, because I had very little experience of it.
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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.
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By the time I was three years old, I'd lived at 10 different addresses in six different countries.
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We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.
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One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the truth about their own lives... I've come to realise that this interest in damaged, untellable stories comes from my parents.
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