228 Quotes by Nick Harkaway

My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.

Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century.

I studied revolutions at university, and I think each revolution must begin with a moment of 'no.' If enough people have that moment at the same time, it becomes a movement.

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.

My books are written from the heart, to entertain: they're books I would like to read. Because of that, when I meet people who like them, we have so much to talk about!

We are bodies which think, and we're at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers.

Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.

'Tigerman' was born in the front seat of a Hilux SUV on the road north out of Chiang Mai.

We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like.