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Nick Harkaway Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1972

Topics

Fear War Suffering World Horror Gas

I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.

Time Celebrity Any Spend Cultivating

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

Never Been Shakespeare Keen

My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts.

Jennifer Johnston

Father God Man War Parents Friends

In real life, we think people don't change, but they do. People do change in profound ways with all the different major things that happen in their lives.

Life Change People Think Profound

I'm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Adrenaline makes me change.

Jean-Marc Vallee

Change Me Adrenaline Makes Hyde Mr

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.

Love Romantic Wife Never Meal Her

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

Me Small Tradition Way British Who

How many people are moving up toward the Antarctica, or the Arctic? Most people move down to Texas and Florida, where it's a little bit warmer.

People Moving Texas Down Florida Up

In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.

World View Stage Russia Been Player

Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.

Business Cool Down Earth Young Out

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

Language Way Tool Writer Rather

It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen.

Johnny Knoxville

Trust Moving Trying You Evolution

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