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" 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. "

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" My relationships are fairly stable. "

" I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance. "

" I think I became less literary after I sold more! "

" If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life? "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right. "

" 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. "

" I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money. "

" Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity. "

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

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

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

" Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. "

" We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness? "

" 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. "

" I spent as much time watching telly and films when I was a kid as I did lying around reading books. I think it's crazy that writers are only allowed to say that certain books have influenced them. "

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

" It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music. "

" 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. "

" My computer is littered with abandoned projects. "