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I would like to have a go at ...

I would like to have a go at TV. I think, especially when you have kids, that you spend a lot of time watching telly, and you think, 'How come I'm not doing that?'

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I spent as much time watching...

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.

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I didn't really want to write...

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.

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I used to be a teacher, and I...

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.

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When most people come in from...

When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.

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Words don't come very easily ...

Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.

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I'd say I got into Marvin Gay...

I'd say I got into Marvin Gaye properly in college.

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I'm really not a big rereader...

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

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The Internet's changed everyt...

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

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I think I became less literar...

I think I became less literary after I sold more!

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It's like when you get sick o...

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.

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With movies, it always feels ...

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

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A lot of what 'Funny Girl' is...

A lot of what 'Funny Girl' is about, for me, is the experience feeling very happy doing a certain thing with a certain group of people. That partly came about because of having really positive experiences writing movies.

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It seems to me quite often th...

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.

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If it's not gripping you, you...

If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

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I can't stand it when writers...

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.

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There's music every day. I do...

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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I have the same interests as ...

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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The most important thing for ...

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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When someone says they've rea...

When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'

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