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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Excluded
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it.
- Big Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really want to write about music very much in 'High Fidelity.' I wanted to write about the relationship stuff, and the music stuff is kind of a bit of fun on top and something to frame it with.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Graham
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it, we reinforce the notion that reading is something we should do, but telly is something that we want to do.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity.
- Nov 07, 2020
When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie's great young adult novel 'The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian.' I told my son it was highly inappropriate for him and one of the most banned books in America. That got his attention, and he raced through it.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Brooklyn,' I knew the story I wanted to tell, and I just had a very strong sense that if I turned the volume up a little bit, it could be something really special.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I only want to write books and movies about women.
- Scared
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal.
- Computer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My computer is littered with abandoned projects.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Rich
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's weird when you become rich at 40.
- Nov 07, 2020
It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020