Nick Harkaway
Nick Harkaway
Nick Harkawayis a novelist and commentator. He is the author of the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker and Tigerman; and a non-fiction study of the digital world, The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Nick Harkaway quotes about
delight happiness run seem
Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.
both fascinated human individual
I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.
male
I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.
brooding
I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.
connery extremely grew moore movies ridiculous roger sean spies
I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.
constantly incredible
I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.
reader though
I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.
exciting library plan staggering
Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.
access great lead supposed work
Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.
amount enormous life whether
An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.
money
Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.
amazon art dedicated production trust works
Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.
All my characters are me, in one way or another.
gets politics pretend
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.