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I'm a huge fan of Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' movies - I went to all three of them on the day they opened and have seen all of them several times since.

~John Lanchester

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To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the Rings' is an epic. But 'The Hobbit' isn't an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it's full of adventures and excitement, they're on a different scale to those of the bigger book.

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At the risk of being old-fartish, I like old-school wines that taste the way the winemaker intended, as opposed to organic and untreated ones with more bottle variation. If I want to take a risk, I'll go bungee-jumping.

~John Lanchester

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'Whoops!' was a spin-off from 'Capital.' I had the research and wanted to place it somewhere.

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It seems to me obviously axiomatic that markets are not magical, that they're organised in a range of regulated entities created by men. We decide in what we will have markets, and we decide how the rules work and how they'll conduct themselves.

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I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books.

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Obviously you can stash money under your mattress, cut down on hazelnut lattes, but in terms of the larger economic frame of our lives, we have very little agency. About one of the only things you can do is understand it.

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You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.

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Fact doesn't have to be plausible; it just has to be fact.

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Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: February 25th, 1962

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