I write the books I want to write, and readers will either respond or not respond.
I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?
I'm a liberal, unrepentantly so, but I often wonder and fear what would happen if I were confronted by any of my liberal beliefs, by somebody who actually who wanted to put them into practice.
I'm all for peace and harmony between the sexes.
I've been very lucky with all my adaptations - they were made by intelligent people who liked the books, and I know that not all authors feel this way.
I've never particularly wanted to read a football novel.
If you're a best-selling writer, then they just want to chuck the book out there, because people will buy it anyway.
In other words, it's too tough to be a musician at the moment.
In the US that layer of celebrity is occupied by film. We don't have that in Britain.
It's more that, as my writing career goes on, I simply want to extend the range of people I'm writing about.
It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.
Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
Most of the work, the jokes and the observations and the smaller narrative episodes, come with the actual writing rather than with the preparation.
Of course, I have no idea what you know and don't know. But I have managed to introduce these songs even to people who listen to a lot of music; maybe you have somehow managed to have missed them.
On top of that, I'm pretty sick of working on the books by the time they're published.
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