Howard Jacobson Quotes

United Kingdom, Journalist
August 25, 1942

Howard Eric Jacobson (born 25 August 1942) is a British novelist and journalist. He is known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.

Also known as Novelist

All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

Howard Jacobson
- Why
- Words
In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

Howard Jacobson
- Life

In the highly improbable event of his being asked to nominate the one most un-Jewish thing he could think of, Sefton Goldberg would have been hard pressed to decide between Nature – that's to say birds, trees, flowers, and country walks – and football – that's to say beer, bikies, mud, and physical pain.

Howard Jacobson
- Country
- Nature
- Pain
He was as sentimental as Hitler about applause and crowds.

Howard Jacobson
Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.

Howard Jacobson
- Sex
I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

Howard Jacobson