228 Quotes by Nick Harkaway

The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us.

The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.

Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.