Quotes by : John Lanchester

The white policeman was a man who gave an impression of heaviness. It wasn't that he was fat, but he....

In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had....

On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season.....

The idea of luxury, even the word "luxury," was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that was....

A solicitor had looked up at the sky, swept blue by the wind, and had a sudden sense of religious consolation,....

It’s as if people used the invention

But the thing which had made him fall for her, fall properly, was the way she seemed so calm and so quiet....

In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking....

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

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five,....