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" If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it. "
Nick Hornby
Leisure
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Doing
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" 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. "
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" '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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" The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are. "
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" I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes. "
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" 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? "
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You
" 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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Back
" Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song. "
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Sometimes
Song
" I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success. "
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Good
Everybody
" The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading. "
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Reading
Any
Fun
" I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious. "
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Just
Those
Gloomy
" 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. "
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Culture
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" 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. "
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Time
Economic
" 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. "
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Home
Young
Women
" 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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Handsome
Fair
" Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. "
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Common
Radio
Reduced
" It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding like me. All writers must experience that. "
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You
Sick
Me
" 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. "
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Work
Me
" At a crude estimate, I must have played 'Thunder Road' 1,500 times. "
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Estimate
Must
Road
" Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it. "
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Quality
Health
Youth
" With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made. "
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Long
Made
Like
" The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen. "
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Anything
Writing
Seen
" 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. "
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Fun
Want
Relationship
" I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal. "
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Challenge
Moment
" 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! "
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Books
Rather
Feel
" Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was a different world. I never wanted to be in that world. I was much happier with my mates at home. "
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World
Home
Life
" 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? "
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Language
Saying
Think
" My computer is littered with abandoned projects. "
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Littered
Abandoned
Computer
" 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. "
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You
" 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. "
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Book
Duty
" I only want to write books and movies about women. "
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Books
Write
Women