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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/writing-a-novel-is-an-act-of-self-annihilation-as-much-as-self/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

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## More by Andrew O'Hagan

> [The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/the-first-rule-of-travel-is-that-you-should-always-go-with-someone/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/you-ll-find-that-no-pride-is-greater-than-the-pride-that-comes-with/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/i-always-knew-i-would-come-to-london-i-loved-glasgow-but-it-seemed/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [Interviewing is not a democratic art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/interviewing-is-not-a-democratic-art/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [High culture isn't what it used to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/high-culture-isn-t-what-it-used-to-be/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/when-you-grow-up-by-the-sea-you-spend-a-good-deal-of-time-looking-at/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [“But she was half in love with chaos... With all her yearning for the ordinary life, she was born to admire outsiders. You could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/but-she-was-half-in-love-with-chaos-with-all-her-yearning-for-the/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/long-before-i-was-a-writer-when-i-was-just-a-haphazard-reader-and-a/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/fans-of-football-and-fans-of-nationhood-have-a-similar-zeal-read-the/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/writing-a-novel-is-an-act-of-self-annihilation-as-much-as-self/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/it-s-not-a-crime-not-to-know-yourself-it-s-not-a-crime-to-send-life/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/art-you-can-flush-down-the-loo-means-nothing-to-me-even-were-the-loo/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/i-m-not-interested-in-writers-who-are-overcome-with-certainty-with/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/long-before-the-arrival-of-reality-tv-before-speed-cameras-before/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

> [Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/once-upon-a-time-i-thought-that-politics-was-the-name-we-gave-to-our/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

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