Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" My relationships are fairly stable. "

Related Quotes:

" 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.' "

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

" Screenwriting is about condensing. "

" I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough. "

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

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

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

" My computer is littered with abandoned projects. "

" 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. "

" I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record. "

" 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. "

" I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once. "

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

" Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded like a bad university essay. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a seriousness of purpose and a seriousness of language. "

" Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart from 'Match of the Day.' "

" People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly what Elizabeth Bennett has to overcome, what she has to deal with. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" However varied you try to make your work, you still bump up against the end of you. You keep knocking into a wall, and the wall is your own skull. But when you adapt somebody's work, it's like a door into somewhere else. It feels like a holiday from myself. "

" I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious. "

" 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. "