There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety.

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

James Lasdun Quotes