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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
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think lots of boys sat down with 'The Three Musketeers' and felt it was a really long book, but then discovered that it's a really gripping swashbuckling story.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a saying in the movie industry that if your movie is about what you actually think it's about, you're in big trouble. I think it's the same with books.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad and I compete on the pool table; that's the most important competition of our lives. The fact that I'm writing and it works for me is one of the great joys for him. We talk about writing, and it's great.
- Connery
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
After university, I went into film. I started out making tea, managed a brief stint as an assistant director, then found myself writing a screenplay. In the end, I wrote quite a few - but by January 2006, I wanted out.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020