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

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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. "

" 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 can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't. "

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

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

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

" Screenwriting is about condensing. "

" 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. "

" It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've never met anyone who is seriously bad. "

" Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways. "

" I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. "

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

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

" Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. "

" 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. "

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

" It seems to me quite often that the journeys of young women are more moving because they are hemmed in more, and dramatically it's more interesting to think about and write about people whose lives are circumscribed in some way. "

" I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth' or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn't get any of that. "

" I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't want to hang out with me if I stopped. "

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