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Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

~Nick Hornby

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If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life?

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I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success.

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I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really clever and moving and complicated, but everybody understands the complication.

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I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.

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Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was a different world. I never wanted to be in that world. I was much happier with my mates at home.

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We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.

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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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Men use music and football to fill up holes in their lives.

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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: April 17th, 1957

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