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I think I am naturally depressive.

~Nick Hornby

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Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded like a bad university essay.

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

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

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There were authors I read as an adult who completely inspired me. But when I was a teenager, I got to hang out with Tom Stoppard for a bit. My mum was his wife's secretary. He was obviously super smart, but he was also approachable and normal. I think he was the first person I'd ever met who I'd thought, 'Oh, I see. There's a living in this.'

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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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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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I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book. I don't want to go back over things. I don't want to adapt my own books for the screen. That's something that's important to me, the keeping it fresh.

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The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

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Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: April 17th, 1957

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