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Graham Hancock Quotes

I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how the past is, and a lot of academic archaeology is about refining the model. It's not about changing the model radically. I'm not aware of any current which is about radically changing the model. It's just me, really.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: August 2, 1950

Topics

Past Me Ideas Academic Changing

I didn't have a role model when I was younger.

Role Model Role Model Younger

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

People World You Wicked Force Deal

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

Think Mean Agree Books I Think

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Good Me Comedy Acting Down Play

The book I'm working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it.

Love History Ideas Book Will More

When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.

Grow Feel You Class Grow Up Pay

I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning.

Father Time Grief Memory Speak Up

And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.

Learning Time Trying New Kind Same

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Poetry Writing Plan Living Write

I like to go into things, and I like to make the most bold choice to tell the particular story being told.

Story Choice Bold Go Tell Things

Nepotism exists - not just in Bollywood but in every profession in India.

Shenaz Treasury

India Just Profession Every Nepotism

I think Dogme was inspiring for quite a few peoples and sort of started a digital movement. Personally, I found it extremely uplifting and fantastic making Dogme movies, but I felt I completed it with 'The Celebration.' I think that was the end of the road on Dogme for me. It was as far as I could go.

Thomas Vinterberg

Me Road Think End Go Movies

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