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Nick Harkaway Quotes

Knowledge is not just power - it is control Picture Quote #1

All my characters are me, in one way or another Picture Quote #1

Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can’t be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they’re still images rather than physical things Picture Quote #1

And don’t tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn’t. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That’s what we live with Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

As I work, I see my writing - each scene, each chapter, each section, each book - in three-act structures and classic myths, and I analyze them through the handy filter of the detective story Picture Quote #1

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We have a curious relationship with ‘funny’ in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context Picture Quote #1

Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work Picture Quote #1

Gone-Away World’ was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I’d put myself into writing film scripts. ‘Tigerman’ is shorter, tighter, more crafted Picture Quote #1

I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there’s a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged Picture Quote #1

$In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth’s surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline Picture Quote #1$

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 Picture Quote #1

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Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve Picture Quote #1

Whether you’re choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own Picture Quote #1

A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life Picture Quote #1

Google says young people don’t care about privacy, but when asked if they’d let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no Picture Quote #1

My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent Picture Quote #1

Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people’s choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming Picture Quote #1

In both ‘Tigerman’ and my first book, ‘The Gone-Away World,’ there are characters who never really get names. They’re too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn’t give them one Picture Quote #1

I’m not an absolutist about free speech. Intellectually, I believe that most of the time it’s better to let things get said, argue them, and put lies and stupidities to rest. Practically, I know that newspapers rarely issue corrections with the same prominence they give to denouncements - and Twitter, by its nature, never does Picture Quote #1

Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster Picture Quote #1

Names aren’t just coathooks, they’re coats. They’re the first thing anyone knows about you Picture Quote #1

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I don’t do a lot of research, exactly, but I’m constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them Picture Quote #1

Throughout the 90s and early 2000s, our financial industry and governments leaned on a snake-oil mirage of wealth creation, a bubble predicated on the obvious falsehood that things could only get better Picture Quote #1

With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can’t legislate that. It must be voluntary - especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink Picture Quote #1

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering Picture Quote #1

I do public appearances. I’m bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on Picture Quote #1

It’s true that interacting through text means no eyelines, no facial expressions, no tone of voice. That can be an advantage, helping us to consider content rather than eloquence, import rather than source Picture Quote #1

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Knowledge is not just power - it is control (Nick Harkaway Quotes) All my characters are me, in one way or another (Nick Harkaway Quotes) Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can’t be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they’re still images rather than physical things. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) And don’t tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn’t. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That’s what we live with. (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. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) As I work, I see my writing - each scene, each chapter, each section, each book - in three-act structures and classic myths, and I analyze them through the handy filter of the detective story. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) We have a curious relationship with ‘funny’ in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work (Nick Harkaway Quotes) Gone-Away World’ was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I’d put myself into writing film scripts. ‘Tigerman’ is shorter, tighter, more crafted. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there’s a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth’s surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) 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 Quotes) Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) Whether you’re choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) Google says young people don’t care about privacy, but when asked if they’d let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) 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 Quotes) At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people’s choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) In both ‘Tigerman’ and my first book, ‘The Gone-Away World,’ there are characters who never really get names. They’re too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn’t give them one. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) I’m not an absolutist about free speech. Intellectually, I believe that most of the time it’s better to let things get said, argue them, and put lies and stupidities to rest. Practically, I know that newspapers rarely issue corrections with the same prominence they give to denouncements - and Twitter, by its nature, never does. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) Names aren’t just coathooks, they’re coats. They’re the first thing anyone knows about you. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) I don’t do a lot of research, exactly, but I’m constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) Throughout the 90s and early 2000s, our financial industry and governments leaned on a snake-oil mirage of wealth creation, a bubble predicated on the obvious falsehood that things could only get better. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can’t legislate that. It must be voluntary - especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) I do public appearances. I’m bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on. (Nick Harkaway Quotes) It’s true that interacting through text means no eyelines, no facial expressions, no tone of voice. That can be an advantage, helping us to consider content rather than eloquence, import rather than source. (Nick Harkaway Quotes)

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