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John Niven
Scottish
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Day
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I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium.
John Niven
You
Money
Band
Young
Live
Back
Once
Bit
Folk
Dreamed
Something
Only
Songs
Couple
Wrote
Around
Got
Rent
Dole
Years
Did
Stadium
Loved
Little
Little Bit
Then
Paid
Your
Rehearsed
Playing
When I went into the computer shop to change my last laptop, the 19-year-old kid behind the counter looked at my six-year-old model and described it as 'vintage.' 'Vintage?' I wanted to scream. 'Son, I've got shirts older than you! I own underpants that have seen more of the world!'
John Niven
You
Change
Son
World
Seen
Own
Older
Kid
More
Computer
Counter
Looked
Got
Shirts
Than
Model
Shop
Behind
Scream
Wanted
Laptop
Vintage
Last
As anyone who follows me on Twitter will know, I'm fairly robust in my views on there. I get next to nothing in the way of trolling. Most women I know who regularly come close to expressing an opinion get trolled constantly. This is a men-on-women issue. Guys are pretty much doing it to the girls.
John Niven
Me
Women
Will
Girl
Nothing
Twitter
Way
Constantly
Pretty
Follows
Guys
Come
Know
Most
Fairly
Opinion
Robust
Doing
Issue
Close
Get
Anyone
Much
Next
Regularly
Views
Who
Expressing
I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent.
John Niven
Age
Recession
Per
Area
Council
Town
Reached
House
Came
Up
Scottish
Unemployment
Grew
Cent
Poor
It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.
John Niven
Money
Everything
See
Borrow
Rates
More
Mortgage
Always
Been
Expensive
Poor
Credit
Credit Cards
Cards
Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown's teacher.
John Niven
Teacher
Me
Noise
Mechanic
Three
Before
White
Seconds
Tries
Plumber
Charlie
About
Brown
Someone
Something
Like
Becomes
Listen
Just
Whenever
Explain
Technical
The Clash had a unique, special relationship with Scotland. Perhaps it was something to do with the energy, anger and beauty in their music. In Scotland at that time, there was a lot of to be angry about. And a great need of some energy and beauty.
John Niven
Music
Time
Great
Angry
Relationship
Anger
Beauty
Energy
Clash
Some
About
Something
Had
Perhaps
Lot
Scotland
Special
Unique
Need
It wasn't until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time.
John Niven
War
Time
Book
School
Cold
Cold War
Teenage
Mark
Teenage Years
Books
Nineteen
About
More
Until
Messages
Read
George
His
Years
Lot
Left
Height
Really
Orwell
A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.
John Niven
Time
Character
Me
World
Made
Become
John
About
Lifestyle
Writer
Read
According
Hugely
Being
Want
Really
Appealing
Whole
Novel
Novelist
Twitter is almost novelistic.
John Niven
Twitter
Almost
There were some summers when every boy in Ayrshire seemed to be playing golf, and my dad taught me. But he was a terrible teacher - of everything. Learning to drive with him almost killed me. He was the world's most impatient man - awful short fuse.
John Niven
Teacher
Me
Man
Learning
World
Drive
Every
Everything
Summers
Fuse
Some
Seemed
Impatient
He
Almost
Most
Terrible
Him
Boy
Were
Short
Taught
Golf
Dad
Awful
Playing
If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.
John Niven
You
People
Water
Long
Sit
Cold
Out
Has-Been
Put
Until
Been
Jump
Scotland
Frog
Gradually
Sitting
Dies
Straight
Used
England
Boil
Boiling
Many
Right
Bring
I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.
John Niven
Me
Job
Single
Solo
About
Boss
Take
Feel
Like
Greatest
Greatest Thing
Overweight
Person
Often
Just
Orders
Just One
Thing
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