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When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Arrival Between Bring Day Deal Departure Deposit Earth Good Good Deal Grow Grow Up Horizon Know Lived Looking Might One Day Places Point Scene Sea Spend Time Two Until Up Waves Where Wonder You

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A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Common Common People Commonality Depend Good Myths Nationalism People Principle Struggling

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A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Blank Blank Page Conscience Editorial Further Happening Making Page People Response Space Still System Theatre Wakes

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Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: About Act Also Appetites Before Depths Flood Get Much Novel Plumbing Put Quite Self-Discovery Serious Something Them While Whole World Writing You

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Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: About Anxiety Before Bloom Book Dreamer Each Five Harold Influence Influential Just Learnt Long Old Other Poets Published Reader Stories Taken Terrifying Up Writer Years

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Interviewing is not a democratic art.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Art Democratic Interviewing

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In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Animals Beneath Bones Britain Children Great Hidden How Literature Obvious Political Secret Talking

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When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: About Author Barbed Wire Danish Getting Growing Growing Up Idea Like Men Mysterious Over Someone Tangled Thrillers Up Walls Who Wire Writer Wrote

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Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Angels Arrival Before Buses Cameras Country Did Felt Held How Itself Journalism Knew Living Long Noticing Reality Reality Tv Recording Responsibility Seeing Speed Tv Watch Were Who

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As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: British Creative Cruelty Full Imperative Industry Journalism Moral Nothing Now Old Once Order People Require Required Sensation Sense Survive To Survive Truth Want

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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