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English - Writer Born: April 17, 1957

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

Fever Write Because Memoir

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

Book Think Way Some

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

People Just Gloomy Quite

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.

Teacher Creativity Balance Know

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

People Sometimes Right Person Person

The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.

You People Political Know

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

Romantic Place Illusion Survive

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

Time Stop Doing Something

I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

Right Move On Write Got

At a crude estimate, I must have played 'Thunder Road' 1,500 times.

Road Thunder Must Estimate

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I used to go and see the Clash a fair bit. I did think they were dead cool, and very handsome.

Cool Handsome Think Dead

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.

Success Good Relationship Book

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

People Smart Feel Want

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Sad Sadness Complicated Everything

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Good Own Want Question

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Football Radio Common Lowest

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

Football Disappointment Matter Bitter

Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it.

Health Quality Youth Need

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.

Work Best Business Look

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

Things Like Little Put

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.

Music Relationship Fun Want

Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

Song World Sometimes Someone

I like writing about popular culture. It helps to place people. I think you can be really, really accurate if you know enough about it, and place people precisely.

You Culture People Think

People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly what Elizabeth Bennett has to overcome, what she has to deal with.

Love People See She

The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

Good You Sometimes Blame

I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't want to hang out with me if I stopped.

Me Want Scared Out

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