@JanFelicity I refuse to believe @hayfestival is over until I’ve finished reading all the books I bought there!

@snazdoll My new goal in life is to be Judi Dench. #HayFestival

@sim_poy The man I greeted with “Hello Derek” at the Hay Festival was the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones. Career in politics down the pan…

@MattGrimson Haha shit. RT Lee Child says Russell Crowe was ‘too fat and too Australian’ to play Jack Reacher http://tgr.ph/1n0MgQP 

@claireindans ‘Empathy opens the door of our moral concern, then laws and rights wedge it open’. Roman Krznaric #hayfestival

@chiggi A little bit sunburnt, a little bit tired after gloriously hot weekend at #hayfestival. And how splendid it was to dance @baddabyng @Kinhead

@carolyn_hitt So we’re watching Dame Judi Dench @hayfestival & Benedict Cumberbatch springs on stage for spot of joint Shakespeare. Best BOGOF ever

@allykennen I briefly met Judy Blume today at #hayfestival MOST exciting. A wise, witty and warm woman. #starstruck

@soniahreynolds Just back from spending time at Hay festival, @BillBailey last show of festival was excellent, real laugh out load fun!

@anitathetweeter Back in London after fab Hay Festival. Fully expect to go upstairs and find Benedict Cumberbatch hiding in the wardrobe

@aliceluciekh P.S. @hayfestival your loos were glorious. They veritably sparkled, even on the last day! #notlikesomeotherfestivalsicouldmention

@Jamesy_sooz Blatantly going to have a literature hangover tomorrow. Might need to buy a new notebook…#hayfestival :)

@aliceluciekh I was too overexcited to be seeing the writer-subject of my dissertation speak to actually note down anything she said! Adichie @hayfestival

@carolyn_hitt One of many great things Dame Judi Dench said @hayfestival was to use sadness & grief “like petrol” to fuel your drive to succeed & thrive

@Pete2Boogie  Most people I’ve seen papping a star since Tony Curtis was in Hay #hayfestival @hayfestival @making_hay pic.twitter.com/IR2GmmWQrX

@Rachel90Kennedy No idea how I’ve never read any Toni Morrison as I love Angelou, but saw her yesterday at #hayfestival, and have bought her entire backlist!

@spej78  Marvellous evening at #hayfestival. First we saw Chris Evans outside the chippy then @marcusbrig podium danced for us.

@JulieNCIH  Jonathan Mullard fascinating on #BreconBeacons. Will be looking out for Silurian moths, dormice & hollin trees on way home from #hayfestival

@BelleChristineB I should not get excited that one of the places for wet weather parking at the Hay Festival, is Baskerville Hall…

@Tauri79  So I’ve packed for every weather I can conceive of, except snow. I should pack for snow, shouldn’t I? #Hayfestival

@jabberworks Thought I’d be stylish at #HayFestival and wear nail polish this year. Have left blue claw marks across London. This might require practice.

@Good_Energy Great question from the audience – “If Germany’s solar revolution is so successful, why can’t the UK do it?!”

@MarkDHannam Science as a social construct, the moon landing hoax, and identifying scientific experts. Fun times @hayfestival

@DegruchyM · @SophieDGruchy #hayfestival It’s a bit like a rock festival but for book fans x

@DalrympleWill So after Toni Morrison, Alfred Brendel. Not bad for a damp mid-week evening in Wales.

@BookishBecca Anyone else just hear Chris Packham declare: ‘Everyone loves to see Tits in HD’ with a straight face? #springwatch

@lib_thinks I find @hayfestival astonishing as ever, even though books & authors have tough competition from glorious green hills & the divine Wye…

@felinfachgriff I met the man behind the “churchill” ad tonight. Can’t beat #hayfestival and the pink lame coat was to die for!

@DAaronovitch It was fun interviewing PJ O’Rourke just now at #hayfestival. The final question was about Ukip. PJ was clear that he didn’t care for ‘em.

@GrewalNadhia If that was you in the Tata tent tonight @simon_schama you have got the groove!

@RachaelAttwood Packing my bag for the Hay festival. Books, hay fever tablets, tickets. In that order.

@StephsAlive Greg Proops absolutely smashed it tonight! One of the most ridiculously intelligent yet hilarious humans on this planet.

@abitaylor9 I think I’ve seen enough children under the age of 5 in Hunter wellies and Barbour jackets to last me a while… #hayfestival

@JillLawless  Thing I learned from Ray Davies event at #hayfestival – there’s a Gregorian chant influence in “You Really Got Me.”

@EHolland8 Great weekend at the Hay Festival, my brain feels enormous and enriched and I will definitely be back next year!

 ‏@Hannah_Furness  Lynn Barber brilliant at #HayFestival. The interviewer she most admires? “Me”

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@StewartPurvis  Sitting behind Sir Brian Leveson watching a Hay Festival panel debating …Leveson

@bellaperry  On a train back from Hay festival with Jeremy Paxman and a group of kids singing Disney songs. Even weirder when J-pax gets off at Newport!?

@GR_Morgan  Toumani and Sidiki are the 71st and 72nd generation kora players in their family. Think about that for a moment.

‏@Emma_is_reading  @hayfestival randomness: chatting to a lady from @thebookseller and discovering we’re both reading “Hideous Creatures” by @SListerAuthor!

@darkmantheatre  Stuck in a slow moving mass of people @hayfestival. Like being an extra in a film about intellectual zombies.

@Sarah__Wei  Hay, where my mind got blowed away! #HayFestival http://instagram.com/p/ocBICniyBW/ 

@AndrewSimms_uk  “It’s a good day, isn’t it? Every day you still live is a good day,” Malian musician Toumani Diabate at a cold, wet @hayfestival to applause