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" I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious. "
Nick Hornby
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" We don't feel duty-bound to get all the way through a TV program. If we're not enjoying it, we turn over. Movies, we tend to give more of the benefit of the doubt because they're only 90 minutes or two hours. But books, there is this thing of, 'It's a book. I've got to finish it.' "
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" 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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" Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is. "
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" I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way. "
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" I think it's weird when you become rich at 40. "
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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.' "
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" 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. "
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" I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right. "
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" When you're adapting a novel, there are always scenes taken out of the book, and no matter which scenes they are, it's always someone's favorite. As a screenwriter, you realize, 'Well, it doesn't work if you include everyone's favorite scenes.' "
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" There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration. "
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" In a way, novel writing is such a permanently student lifestyle. When it comes to movies, and you have to go to these meetings and try and impress people and get money out of them, I feel as though I'm playacting at being somebody who's grown up. "
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" Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories. "
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" Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over. "
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" I think I am naturally depressive. "
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Naturally
" 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. "
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" I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope. "
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" 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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" 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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" I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. "
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Talking
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" I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me, and a book doing well is important because it buys you another one. Not because of the money but if you keep doing interesting work, work that people like, they will want you to do more, and offers that are interesting come in. "
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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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" I've always been able to enjoy aspects of my life. "
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" If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it. "
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" Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty. "
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" Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person. "
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" We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons. "
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" It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music. "
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" I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless. "
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" Your failure to enjoy a highly rated novel doesn't mean you're dim - you may find that Graham Greene is more to your taste, or Stephen Hawking or Iris Murdoch or Ian Rankin. Dickens, Stephen King, whoever. "
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" 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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