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People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.

I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter.

Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

Rather than going through a commercial banking training program, at the first bank I ever worked in, I was the chairman. And it was my own money, so we loaned it out like it was my own money.

I happen to know a bit about banking.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.