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John Lanchester

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Total quotes: 2

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John Lanchester

Birthname

Birthday: February 25, 1962

Educated At: St John's College, Gresham's School

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Journalist, Author, Novelist, Writer

Total quotes: 2

“In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a book, we discover anew our banishment from the bright worlds of imagination and fantasy.”

— John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel

Tagged: Exiled From Our Memories, Banishment From A Fantasy World, Being Kicked Out Of Your Memories

“Perhaps the finest writer ever to use speed systematically, however, was W. H. Auden. He swallowed Benzedrine every morning for twenty years, from 1938 onward, balancing its effect with the barbiturate Seconal when he wanted to sleep. (He also kept a glass of vodka by the bed, to swig if he woke up during the night.) He took a pragmatic attitude toward amphetamines, regarding them as a ‘labor-saving device’ in the ‘mental kitchen,’ with the important proviso that ‘these mechanisms are very crude, liable to injure the cook, and constantly breaking down.”

— John Lanchester, HIGH STYLE - The New Yorker

Tagged: Writing Routines

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