25 Quotes by Mark Barrowcliffe

Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.

I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.

With a rescue dog, you take what's at the centre as long as it roughly fits the bill. When you buy a dog from a breeder, you can choose everything from its personality to how shiny its coat is.

Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

I knew you were meant to kiss girls, but there was something else that you were meant to do first, and I didn’t know what that was.

I was petrified of making a mistake – head-banging to the wrong song or not hard enough, or thinking a guitar solo was over when it wasn’t. A rule of thumb is that if the guitar solo is by Led Zep or Lynyrd Skynyrd then it’s not over. Ever.