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" Strangely enough, the legend of John Brown, who was clearly crazy, helped the abolitionist cause and is thought to have precipitated the American Civil War. "
Justin Cartwright
Crazy
American
Thought
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" The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as holding most of the books printed in England since the first quarter of the 17th century, it houses priceless printed texts, manuscripts, and collections. "
Justin Cartwright
Library
Great
First
" In Sydney, I gave what was billed as a masterclass to bright students of writing at the University of Sydney. But the term 'masterclass' was possibly over-egging the pudding. All I could do was pass on some lessons from my own life, and the most obvious is that if you want to be a writer, you must first have been a reader. "
Justin Cartwright
Want
Writing
You
" Jim Crace's novels have one thing in common, which is that each is set in an entirely original world. None of these worlds is of a specific time or place, but they seem to have some connection to our own lives. "
Justin Cartwright
Time
Connection
Own
" For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material. "
Justin Cartwright
Moral
Useful
Seen
" A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope. "
Justin Cartwright
Between
Blindness
Connection
" Winning the Whitbread was a very major thing for me. I'd always been well reviewed, but this made me widely read. "
Justin Cartwright
Me
Well
Been
" Germany led the world in photography and film: 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' and 'Metropolis' are works that, to this day, film buffs revere. "
Justin Cartwright
Photography
World
Day
" I have worshipped Berlin from the day I read 'Two Concepts of Liberty' in South Africa. It seemed to make it respectable to be a liberal. "
Justin Cartwright
Make
Africa
Day
" 'The Cauliflower' is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword. "
Justin Cartwright
Indispensable
Says
Novel
" In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea of the hidden persuader or the manipulator is largely absurd. "
Justin Cartwright
Love
Innocent
Advertising
" Not many people like Johannesburg, but I love the place. "
Justin Cartwright
Like
I Love
Love
" It is uncomfortable to be reminded that the Catholic church only removed the reference to 'perfidious Jews' from the Good Friday liturgy in 1960. "
Justin Cartwright
Good
Uncomfortable
Church
" Just before the opening of the 20th century, the Collyer brothers, Homer and Langley, are born into great privilege on the Upper East Side of New York, in a mansion overlooking Central Park. "
Justin Cartwright
Privilege
New
Born
" Homer Collyer's chosen form of self-expression is the piano, although late in life, when his hearing also goes, he takes to writing. "
Justin Cartwright
Piano
Writing
Chosen
" Someone once pointed out that there are quite a lot of animals in my books, and I'm sure that is something to do with 'The Wind in the Willows.' I must have picked up a rather anthropomorphic view of them. "
Justin Cartwright
Books
View
Up
" The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it. "
Justin Cartwright
Strange
Explain
You
" Tom Fort, a BBC radio journalist, starts from the assumption that 'many of us have a road that reaches back into our past'. For him, this is the 92 miles of the A303 - as he subtitles his book, the 'Highway to the Sun'. "
Justin Cartwright
Road
Past
Book
" The point about 'state-of-the-nation' novels is not that they should be about the 'state-of-the-nation', but they should be about people. "
Justin Cartwright
About
People
Point
" I thought that, post-apartheid, there would be absolutely no interest in South Africa. That has been both true and untrue. The major writers like Gordimer and Coetzee have produced major books. But some of the more minor writers have drifted away. "
Justin Cartwright
Thought
Africa
Books
" Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good. "
Justin Cartwright
Good
Product
Capitalism
" America is the big subject of the second half of the 20th century, tackled in one form or another by all the great American male writers. You could make a case for saying that it was the only game in town - from Bellow to Roth to Updike to Richard Ford - America was more or less explicitly the leitmotif. "
Justin Cartwright
American
Game
America
" As Eric Weitz argues, the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was not responsible for the Reich; it was a democratic, socially aware and progressive government, way ahead of many other European governments in its introduction of workers' rights, public housing, unemployment benefit and suffrage for women. "
Justin Cartwright
Government
Ahead
Republic
" There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an artist... is a whole life. "
Justin Cartwright
You
Writer
Art
" Coffee must be treated gently and smoothed out. I hadn't realised it was so temperamental. "
Justin Cartwright
Out
Must
Gently
" The plane approaches Cape Town and, as always, I am astonished by the view of Table Mountain and the surrounding sea. It is so overwhelmingly beautiful that I feel the urge to belong - not necessarily to the people, but to the landscape. "
Justin Cartwright
People
Sea
Mountain
" It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly expressed views. And writers, of course, subscribe enthusiastically to this idea. "
Justin Cartwright
Rather
Work
Views
" I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial like me. "
Justin Cartwright
Lucky
I Am
Nice
" Franschhoek - French Corner - is a place which serves South Africans as a kind of sophisticated fantasy, an alternative version of what life could be. The small town is enclosed by wild mountains, at this time of year blue and dusty green. "
Justin Cartwright
Life
Green
Wild
" Great architects like Taut, Mendelsohn, and Gropius built some astonishing buildings which were to change the way architects around the world thought. Brecht and Weill forever changed musical theatre; Kaethe Kollwitz and others changed German perceptions of the purposes of art. "
Justin Cartwright
World
Theatre
Great
" 'The Cauliflower' is full of these bizarre anecdotes, some of them petty, others moving or whimsical, as its many characters try to make sense of the universe in which they live - a universe strange, febrile, and utterly unique. "
Justin Cartwright
Universe
Live
Moving