Top 97 Quotes by Nick Harkaway

About Nick Harkaway

These are some quotes by English author Nick Harkaway Novelist, who was born in 1972.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

Nick Harkaway

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.

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

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

Nick Harkaway

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

Nick Harkaway

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.

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

Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.

Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.

Nick Harkaway

If you ask who I aspire to, well, if a single line of mine was as funny as P. G. Wodehouse can be, that would be great.

If you ask who I aspire to, well, if a single line of mine was as funny as P. G. Wodehouse can be, that would be great.

Nick Harkaway

We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear.

We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear.

Nick Harkaway

I'm not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don't like to talk about myself. I had to learn - I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV.

I'm not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don't like to talk about myself. I had to learn - I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV.

Nick Harkaway

When the time comes to work, I work.

When the time comes to work, I work.

Nick Harkaway

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