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" I enjoy what was called 'swotting' in my day. "

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" Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century. "

" There is an army of the informed wanting to be more informed. "

" I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it. "

" Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. "

" In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism, to a celebration between black and white musicians and their music. "

Black And White

" Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists. "

" The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen. "

" Class doesn't create culture anymore. "

" It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy - and, fair play, given much back - to realise that there is a time to be a well-heeled revolutionary. "

" It is in our culture that we don't want to admit that our culture is good. "

" I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational stories and mingled them in together. "

" Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow. "

" Sometimes, you're just moved by people's journeys. "

" If I meet pals, we do hug each other, and it's very nice, you know... it's something that's come on me late and became second nature, and it's first nature now! "

" I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament. "

" I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter. "

" I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always a novel around. The strange thing was that after 'Remember Me,' there wasn't. "

" I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle. "

" Autobiographical fiction is very tricky. "

Autobiographical

" People in jobs that they hate must be worn out. "

" In the 1990s, from the estates of Scotland came the phenomenon of Irvine Welsh. 'Trainspotting' demanded its place not only in the high ranks of contemporary fiction but as a describer of a Britain that literally and metaphorically was in a deep mess. "

" I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat. "

" We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expressed in choirs, because you didn't have to have instruments except your voice. "

" I don't feel like I'm slowing down. "

" Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you! "

" In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. "

" We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me. "

" A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going. "

" The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose. "

" Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time. "