- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Charity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Booksellers are tied to publishing - they need conventional publishing models to continue - but for those companies, that's not the case. Amazon is an infrastructure company; Apple sells hardware; Google is really an advertising company. You can't afford as a publisher to have those companies control your route to market.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never engage negatively with reviewers. If someone says something that enrages me, I do what I do on stage. I make a joke about myself and move on. Sometimes people say things that are manifestly wrong or even apparently malicious. That's fine, too. It's a response.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020