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Nick Harkaway Quotes

My dad and I compete on the pool table; that's the most important competition of our lives. The fact that I'm writing and it works for me is one of the great joys for him. We talk about writing, and it's great.

Nick Harkaway

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1972

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Great Competition Me Writing Table

I really don't care at all what people call me as long as they're listening to the music and talking about it. They can call me a space-jazz flautist. I don't care at all.

Mayer Hawthorne

Music People Me Listening Care Long

I have a random array of ball markers in my bag and don't use any specific one. Many are the plastic kind you find at almost any golf course.

Matt Kuchar

Random Golf Bag You Find Kind

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.

Amy Tan

Bird Day Writing Song Saw Novel

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

Roy Conli

Time Reading Think You Become Spend

When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where the high comes in.

Miles Davis

Someone Find Place Never Leave High

When I was a kid, I loved Jackie Chan.

Lucas Till

Loved Kid Jackie Jackie Chan

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Editing Shooting Act Then

I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated.

Derek Jeter

Respect People Treat Want Way Tried

I tend to sleep a lot.

Dean Winters

Sleep Lot Tend

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Christopher Isherwood

Entertainment Industry Bet Some Does

I think the first three Rickenbacker basses were imported around 1964. Pete Quaife, the bassist for The Kinks, bought one. Then John Entwistle from The Who bought one. As for the third one, I asked the manager of the store if I could get an employee discount. He said I could, and so I picked up that one.

Chris Squire

Think Said Three Manager Employee

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

Brock Yates

Child Bicycle Environment Now Human