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Justin Cartwright Quotes

British - Novelist | 1945 -

Franschhoek - French Corner - is a place which serves South Africans as a kind of sophisticated fantasy, an alternative version of what life could be. The small town is enclosed by wild mountains, at this time of year blue and dusty green.

Justin Cartwright

Life Time Mountains Blue Green Year

Jim Crace's novels have one thing in common, which is that each is set in an entirely original world. None of these worlds is of a specific time or place, but they seem to have some connection to our own lives.

Justin Cartwright

Time World Connection Place Own Set

In the new artisan coffee movement, Jeremy Challender, a 32-year-old Australian who is one of the founders of Prufrock Coffee, explains precision is everything for the barista. Jeremy is able to analyse his coffee with the benefit of an app on his phone.

Justin Cartwright

Coffee Phone New Movement Everything

Coffee must be treated gently and smoothed out. I hadn't realised it was so temperamental.

Justin Cartwright

Coffee Out Must Temperamental Gently

Complete barista-standard coffee machines cost from £1,600 to more than £20,000.

Justin Cartwright

Coffee More Cost Complete Machines

It was my idea to do a two-hour course of barista training. I was keen to learn how to finish off my coffee with a picture of a heart or a palm tree or, perhaps, a swan.

Justin Cartwright

Heart Coffee Tree Training Learn

The druidical claims for Stonehenge seem to belong to that bonkers-but-persistent strand of Englishness that believes there is something particularly mystical about the English themselves, who were clearly a chosen people.

Justin Cartwright

People Clearly Belong Seem Something

Transport is not a ministry the ambitious should accept: no transport minister has gone on to be prime minister.

Justin Cartwright

Accept Transport Gone Prime Ministry

Tom Fort, a BBC radio journalist, starts from the assumption that 'many of us have a road that reaches back into our past'. For him, this is the 92 miles of the A303 - as he subtitles his book, the 'Highway to the Sun'.

Justin Cartwright

Past Sun Book Road Back Radio

It is surprising how many people who don't read believe they have a book in them. Why? Nobody would imagine that Alfred Brendel took up the piano on a whim at 25 when he found accountancy unpleasant.

Justin Cartwright

People Book Believe Nobody Why Up

In Sydney, I gave what was billed as a masterclass to bright students of writing at the University of Sydney. But the term 'masterclass' was possibly over-egging the pudding. All I could do was pass on some lessons from my own life, and the most obvious is that if you want to be a writer, you must first have been a reader.

Justin Cartwright

Life Writing You Want My Own Bright

We authors certainly don't know what is going to happen to our books. Are they going to disappear into the ether, following music downloads, or are ebooks going to open up a whole new world of readers? And how much are we being paid per copy? We haven't a clue.

Justin Cartwright

Music World Copy New Know Open

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