Andrew O'Hagan

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

— 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…

— 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…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

— Andrew O'Hagan

High culture isn't what it used to be.

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— Andrew O'Hagan

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

— 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…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I…

— 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,…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

— Andrew O'Hagan

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

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits…

— Andrew O'Hagan

There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need…

— Andrew O'Hagan

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

— Andrew O'Hagan

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

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

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

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

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers…

— Andrew O'Hagan