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Nick Harkaway Quotes

Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1972

Topics

Home Wife Writing Book Coming Home

I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable.

Work People Me Black Think Better

You cannot imagine how many people called, how many letters, how many emails. Every place I go, people ask me, 'Please, don't quit.'

People Me You Place Go Quit

I don't dye my hair. It's so fabulous. I had brown hair for so long. I was always getting my roots done. Sometimes I did it myself because I couldn't afford to go to a hair salon. When I turned 60, I decided to see what color I am underneath. I started dyeing my hair a very light blond and then I let it grow out. I cut it very short.

Light Myself I Am Roots Hair Color

26 is my favourite number.

Number Favourite

American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.

Culture Me Ideas Shopping American

I suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.

Experience Theatre Level Interested

There are two ways of dealing with being odd. One is to really try and conform, and the other is to do the opposite and really make a thing out of it. At school, it wasn't that I was bullied, but everyone was very aware that I was different. I was kind of the token weird person that people accepted into their group, almost like an accessory.

School People Weird Person Group

I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.

Life Knowledge Mad Say Mean Return

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Life Future Best Me My Life Look

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

Change You Person Touch Matter May

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

History Time Think Present Meet

I remember seeing the Colosseum for the first time when I was a young boy. It left a lasting impression on me.

Diego Della Valle

Time Me Remember Seeing Young Boy

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