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'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

~Andrew O'Hagan

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High culture isn't what it used to be.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Culture High Used

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I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Always City Come Echoes Filled Glasgow Just Knew Lives London Loved Own Parents Seemed Sometimes Want Would You Your

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I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an office full of elderly people who looked after blind ex-servicemen.

~Andrew O'Hagan

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Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Among Animals Bearing Culture Every Existence First Human Human Existence Literary Make Seek Sense Who

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Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

~Andrew O'Hagan

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We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.

~Andrew O'Hagan

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Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

~Andrew O'Hagan

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Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Any Anybody Anybody Else Both Certain Charm Curse Else Good Live Moral More Novelists Once Our Places Several Than Then Will Writing

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Everybody has an idea of the kind of society they'd like to live in, and I would like to live in one where our senior politicians were spirited and original and possibly even good at what they do.

~Andrew O'Hagan

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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