James Lasdun Quotes

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

  James Lasdun

  Mind, Way, Progressive

  James Lasdun (2013). “Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked”, p.196, Macmillan

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• I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.

  James Lasdun

  Self Confidence, Emotion, Easy

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• To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters for me is how human and interesting they are. I happen to be drawn to characters who operate under intense internal pressure, which often comes from some deep psychological conflict.

  James Lasdun

  Character, Interesting, Wicked

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people will root, has never had anything to do with why I read or write fiction. As long as the writing and story remain alive, intense, invigorating, provoking, the characters can be as demonic or saintly as the author wants.

  James Lasdun

  Writing, Character, Roots

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me. Being of Jewish descent in England always carried a vague sense of being foreign, while not being a practicing Jew made it hard to think of myself as fully Jewish either. So living here in a way just clarifies that terminal outsider position - makes it somehow official, which I like.

  James Lasdun

  Thinking, America, Viewpoints

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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