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

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

" Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it. "

" If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it. "

" The Internet's changed everything. There are no record stores to hang out in anymore. "

" Dylan's 'Chronicles' is easily the best rock n' roll memoir ever written, as far as I'm concerned. There aren't many stories in there, but if you want to know where an artist came from and why he thinks the way he does, then that's the one. "

" 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. "

" I kind of stumbled on the material for 'An Education' and thought it would make a good movie, and one of the things that came out of that, for me, was that I learned that if you write a big part for a girl or a young woman, you get the opportunity to work with the best talent in the world. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

" Screenwriting is about condensing. "

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

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

" I think I am naturally depressive. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

" It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years. "