Andrew Haigh Quotes

I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present.

Everybody's past and history informs them.

As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

Any decision that I make, anything that I do, every single consideration of my day goes through the prism of what my former experience has been.

I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

History is not the past. History is the present. We carry our history with us.

My background is inseparable from my work.

As people grow and evolve, we still are the experiences that we had in our childhood, but they shape us in different ways.

Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

I'm always thinking about time. That's one of themes I return to in my work, the way the past bears on the present, the way that time is not linear, and how that expresses itself in people's everyday lives.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.