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

~Nick Hornby

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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.

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My computer is littered with abandoned projects.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Screenwriting is about condensing.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: April 17th, 1957

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