Quotes by Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru

As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.

Art

Fashion

Hunting

Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama’s election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

Evening

Night

Party

But it’s the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That’s why I don’t just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven’t been.

Library Research

Pages

Writing

Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.

Fierce

Witty

Writing

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it’s narcissistic and pointless.

Good Day

Noble

Writing

I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don’t like some of the conventions of the ‘historical novel’, but I think there’s a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

Historical Novels

Thinking

Way

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

Leader

Nuance

Understanding

I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn’t know where it was going to go. So I thought, ‘I’m going to do everything that you’re not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I’m going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I’m not going to worry about how things connect until later on.

Hands

Want

Worry

I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

Records

Rights

Trials

I suffer from vertigo. It’s paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I’ve been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

Climbing

Suffering

Trying

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Art

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Character

Class

Climbing

Criticism

Essex

Evening

Fall

Fashion

Fiction

Fierce

Fighting

Flower

Good Day

Grandmother

Hands

Happens

Historical Novels

Hunting

Ideas

Imagination

Important

Leader

Lectures

Library Research

Likes

Long

Love

Military

Mindset

New York

Night

Noble

Nuance

Our World

Ownership

Pages

Party

Patterns

People

Phones

Play

Records

Rejects

Religious

Rights

Sex

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Quotes by Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru

As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.

Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama’s election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

But it’s the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That’s why I don’t just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven’t been.

Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it’s narcissistic and pointless.

I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don’t like some of the conventions of the ‘historical novel’, but I think there’s a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

I suffer from vertigo. It’s paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I’ve been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

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