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" I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material. "

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

" The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great fan of the hard work literary novel. "

" It takes big business a couple of decades to work out how best to exploit a cultural form; once that has happened, 'that high-low fork in the road' is unavoidable, and the middle way begins to look impossibly daunting. "

" Your failure to enjoy a highly rated novel doesn't mean you're dim - you may find that Graham Greene is more to your taste, or Stephen Hawking or Iris Murdoch or Ian Rankin. Dickens, Stephen King, whoever. "

" I miss independent record stores very much. "

" I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless. "

" I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal. "

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

" I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really clever and moving and complicated, but everybody understands the complication. "

" I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. "

" Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways. "

" The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen. "

" People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly what Elizabeth Bennett has to overcome, what she has to deal with. "

" 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. "

" I think I am naturally depressive. "

" If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job. "

" I like writing about popular culture. It helps to place people. I think you can be really, really accurate if you know enough about it, and place people precisely. "

" Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity. "

" With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made. "

" The more screenwriting you do, the more you become aware that particular scenes aren't going to end up in the movie because they're too expensive. That has perhaps changed the way I think about writing novels, actually, because now I write expensive scenes whenever I can. "

" I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them! "

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

" Screenwriting is about condensing. "

" With 'Brooklyn,' I knew the story I wanted to tell, and I just had a very strong sense that if I turned the volume up a little bit, it could be something really special. "

" I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success. "

" We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons. "

" I used to go and see the Clash a fair bit. I did think they were dead cool, and very handsome. "

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

" If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction book written in 1964 because you're hearing how language was actually used and hearing what people's actual concerns were at the beginning of the 1960s. "

" It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were. "