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

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" I miss independent record stores very much. "

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

" I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie's great young adult novel 'The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian.' I told my son it was highly inappropriate for him and one of the most banned books in America. That got his attention, and he raced through it. "

" The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes. "

" I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" A lot of what 'Funny Girl' is about, for me, is the experience feeling very happy doing a certain thing with a certain group of people. That partly came about because of having really positive experiences writing movies. "

" 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. "

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

" When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children if you think it's elitist - does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn't English? "

" 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. "

" I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope. "

" I've always been able to enjoy aspects of my life. "

" Why are we scared of a '50s weepie? Why are we scared of a movie that pulls you in and punches you in the stomach? "

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

" My relationships are fairly stable. "

" I only read the very best music books. Donald Fagan's memoir 'Eminent Hipsters' is great. Bob Dylan's memoir 'Chronicles' and Patty Smith's 'Just Kids' are both incredible. "

" Lots of times when I'm offered things, I can't see how a story gets filmed. Either it's too internal or it doesn't have a strong spine. "

" There were authors I read as an adult who completely inspired me. But when I was a teenager, I got to hang out with Tom Stoppard for a bit. My mum was his wife's secretary. He was obviously super smart, but he was also approachable and normal. I think he was the first person I'd ever met who I'd thought, 'Oh, I see. There's a living in this.' "

" Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment. "

" When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun. "

" I think it's weird when you become rich at 40. "

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" Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. "

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