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

- James Lasdun

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.…

- James Lasdun

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 inter…

- James Lasdun

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 Je…

- James Lasdun

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…

- James Lasdun