Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

- Jon Mcgregor

He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it was like as if a door had be…

- Jon Mcgregor

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to …

- Jon Mcgregor

You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you co…

- Jon Mcgregor

He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders what memories she is re…

- Jon Mcgregor

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

- Jon Mcgregor

Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

- Jon Mcgregor

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

- Jon Mcgregor

I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too much of things fo…

- Jon Mcgregor