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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.'

~Nick Hornby

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Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

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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.

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I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal.

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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.

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I think it's weird when you become rich at 40.

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It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

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I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

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One of the depressing things one realizes as one gets older is how much of one's tastes and attitudes are simply products of economic circumstance at the time.

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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: April 17th, 1957

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