Max Hastings
Max Hastings
Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL, FRHistSis a British journalist, editor, historian and author. His parents were Macdonald Hastings, a journalist and war correspondent and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth28 December 1945
computer easier made
It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.
written
I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.
associate cause family inclined inevitable serious trouble
It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be.
character writing people
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.
jobs royal pianist
If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
war brotherhood features
The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.
aggressive wet has-beens
I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.
government decent catastrophe
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
children clever believe
Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'
responsibility media doubt
There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.
soldier has-beens
I would have been a disastrous soldier.
school play people
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.
play ridiculous comedy
We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
book writing thinking
When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.