You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say,… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“But she was half in love with chaos... With all her yearning for the ordinary life, she was born to admire outsiders. You could… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
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,… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
