I could, I think, write a literary novel, but I have no desire to - even my bleakest book has some jokes in it, and I'd feel nervous writing a book with no jokes.
I didn't mind High Fidelity being set in Chicago at all.
I do like to read, but, you know, it's hard, and I do like watching telly, and I do like sport, and reading has to fight for its place within that.
I don't think of "High Fidelity" as a real hip book.
I don't think that most songwriters can ever anticipate quite what their songs are going to mean to people.
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!
I don't worry too much about what I am, what I do, what I want to do.
I get excited about having finished a new book.
I have a really low boredom threshold.
I reckon 75% at least of a book has to be omitted from the screen version, and there's no point in agonizing about this once you've taken the money.
I start with a fragment of narrative, or a character, something that seems to have resonance for me and which allows me to explore the kinds of themes I'm interested in.
I still maintain that music is the best way of getting the self-expression job done.
I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.
I think English literature has gotten really bogged down over the last few years.
I think with many of the books, I've ended up dramatizing a mood or state of mind I've experienced, so they're not straightforwardly, literally autobiographical.
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