255 Quotes by Howard Jacobson

This is now the way our culture prioritises. Look up 'Steppenwolf,' and you'll get the band before the novel. Look up Jesus Christ, and you'll get the musical. Look up Princess Link-a-din and you'll get LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network.

I'm an old-fashioned English lit. man. Straight down the line - it's George Eliot, it's Dickens, it's Dr. Johnson, it's Jane Austen.

If we declare ourselves, as readers, to be on the side of life, the question has to be asked what sort of life we are on the side of.

I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach Jews; we were Jewish-joke Jews. We were bagel Jews. We didn't go to synagogue. I'm frightened of synagogue to this day.

I normally take a long time finding titles. I finish the book and go into sweats for months afterwards trying to think of them.

Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.

Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour.

People keep saying you can't satirize Trump because he's beyond satire, but it's not difficult to just let him out and let him walk upon the stage and say his own words.

You won't get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won't get a reasoned account of the joys of being 'linked' from somebody who's already 'in.'