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Nick Harkaway
Nick Harkaway
English Novelist
Born: 1972
Myself People Think World Writing You
Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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I do not propose that everyone in Guantanamo or its evil twin at Bagram is innocent. I just don't believe we should incarcerate people without trial and torture them or facilitate and profit from their torture. Nick Harkaway
People Innocent Evil Believe Profit Everyone Trial Torture Facilitate Propose Without Just Them Should Twin Guantanamo
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
Peace People Walk Mind Peace Of Mind Living Other Vital More Fellow Fellow Human Beings Five-Minute Than Human Human Beings Beings Imagine
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
Love Funny Relationship People Think Bit Laugh Also Making Context Curious Just Just A Little Bit Literary Little Little Bit
Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs. Nick Harkaway
Entitled Suitcases Earned About Rather He Looked Witches Wrote Him Terry Wizards Sir Than Legs Monks Dragons
I make up names for people all the time - it's part of writing. Very often, the name comes with the character, along with of a sense of who they are and what they do. Nick Harkaway
Time Character People Writing Sense Part Name Along Names Make Make Up Up Very Often Who
Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you. Nick Harkaway
You First About Names Knows First Thing The First Thing Just Anyone Coats Thing
To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the pages, you can't look at more than one page at once. Nick Harkaway
You Once Properly More Through Look Still Than Irritation Page Pages Flick
Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work. Nick Harkaway
Work Great Creative Lead Supposed Access Creative Work
We need to differentiate between commercial piracy - where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale - and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may or may not be detrimental to overall sales. Nick Harkaway
Criminal Scale Detrimental Between Overall Sales Domestic Huge Commercial Piracy May Where Which Produce Organisations Differentiate Need
I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf. Nick Harkaway
Work Strange Living Enormous Our Bookshelf House Underneath Room Living Room
My books are written from the heart, to entertain: they're books I would like to read. Because of that, when I meet people who like them, we have so much to talk about! Nick Harkaway
Heart People Meet Books Entertain Would About Written Like Talk Read Because Them Much Who
In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down. Nick Harkaway
People Remember Perspective Lose Down Think Society Ancient Would Adopting Could He Written Written Down Simply Felt Opinion Cease Greece Handy Literate Fancy Capacity Themselves Socrates
I'm caught somewhere between introversion and extroversion. Performance is natural to me, joyful, but it is also exhausting. I can feed on it, but the expense is high, too, like being a carnivore: I have to chase down my meals. Nick Harkaway
Me Natural Somewhere Down Too High Chase Feed Performance Between Like Joyful Also Caught Exhausting Expense Being Meals
We are bodies which think, and we're at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers. Nick Harkaway
Home Creativity Design Think Our Physical Fingers Because Understand Acknowledge Which Bodies Ethos
I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it. Nick Harkaway
Politics Pretend Perfect Infallible Gets Want Holy Need
A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you're lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride. Nick Harkaway
You Waiting Ride Events Cheese Bad Classes Perched Entropy Lights Stick Lot End Author Hard Lucky Bright Basically
All my characters are me, in one way or another. Nick Harkaway
Me Way Characters One-Way Another
The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible. Nick Harkaway
Virtue Our Leaders Notion
We tend to assume that data is either private or public, either owned by one person or shared by many. In fact there's more to it than that, above and beyond the upsetting reality that private data is now anything but. Nick Harkaway
Reality Assume Above Data More Fact Tend Shared Beyond Private Than Person Owned In Fact Upsetting Anything Either Public Many Now
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