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. |