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

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

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" 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. "

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" I didn't really want to write about music very much in 'High Fidelity.' I wanted to write about the relationship stuff, and the music stuff is kind of a bit of fun on top and something to frame it with. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty. "

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

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

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

" It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music. "

" Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it, we reinforce the notion that reading is something we should do, but telly is something that we want to do. "

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

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

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" I would like to have a go at TV. I think, especially when you have kids, that you spend a lot of time watching telly, and you think, 'How come I'm not doing that?' "

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" 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.' "

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