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" I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book. I don't want to go back over things. I don't want to adapt my own books for the screen. That's something that's important to me, the keeping it fresh. "

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" I only want to write books and movies about women. "

" I spent as much time watching telly and films when I was a kid as I did lying around reading books. I think it's crazy that writers are only allowed to say that certain books have influenced them. "

" I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't want to hang out with me if I stopped. "

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" Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song. "

" I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth' or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn't get any of that. "

" I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money. "

" Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded like a bad university essay. "

" Men use music and football to fill up holes in their lives. "

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" We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness? "

" I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as male ones. The novels I read as a young man were all by women writers, and when I started writing, I wanted to set my books inside the home. "

" The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. "

" I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought. "

" It seems to me quite often that the journeys of young women are more moving because they are hemmed in more, and dramatically it's more interesting to think about and write about people whose lives are circumscribed in some way. "

" My relationships are fairly stable. "

" I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way. "

" One of the depressing things one realizes as one gets older is how much of one's tastes and attitudes are simply products of economic circumstance at the time. "

" I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record. "

" 'An Education' was a complicated piece of work because it came from a tiny essay, so it took me a while to find the story I wanted to tell and the characters I wanted to tell it about. That really only emerged after four or five drafts. "

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" You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that some people respond to. "

" Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person. "

" The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and to include as many different people and places and times as you want, working with pretty much only one person, the editor, whose job it is to get it in good shape for publication. "

" If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it. "

" At a crude estimate, I must have played 'Thunder Road' 1,500 times. "

" I'd say I got into Marvin Gaye properly in college. "

" The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir. "

" When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.' "

" I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance. "

" The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are. "

" I miss independent record stores very much. "