I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I’m optimistic, healthy and fair-haired. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
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! Nick Harkaway Read Quote
It’s true that interacting through text means no eyelines, no facial expressions, no tone of voice. That can be an advantage, helping us to consider content rather than eloquence, import rather than source. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
I’m caught somewhere between introversion and extroversion. Performance is natural to me, joyful, but it is also exhausting. I can feed on it, but the expense is high, too, like being a carnivore: I have to chase down my meals. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
The reason steampunk attracts people is that it is premised on a technology which is visible and pleasing to the naked eye, and whose moving parts are comprehensible on a human scale. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
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. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
I’m a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn’t be disenfranchised if I tried. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard. Nick Harkaway Read Quote
