Author: Nick Harkaway

Quotes

I'm a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I'm in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven't created.

I'm a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I'm in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven't created.

- Nick Harkaway

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

- Nick Harkaway

I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.

I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.

- Nick Harkaway

When the time comes to work, I work.

When the time comes to work, I work.

- Nick Harkaway

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

- Nick Harkaway

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

- Nick Harkaway

In a social context, digital technology introduces you to neighbours of the mind - people who are separated by distance, but close to you in thought and interest.

In a social context, digital technology introduces you to neighbours of the mind - people who are separated by distance, but close to you in thought and interest.

- Nick Harkaway

Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.

Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.

- Nick Harkaway

I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind.

I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind.

- Nick Harkaway

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