Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. |
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. |
So the domestic novel can accommodate, should accommodate, a lot of extremity. |
The degree of examination that goes on in film is very interesting for a writer, because there's not a line that goes unchallenged in a script. |
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. |
The process you have to go through to get a book published is quite difficult, because books are judged by essentially serious-minded people. |
There's a hundred million different ways of writing, and it takes you a long time to sort through that stuff. And I think it takes anyone a long time to find a voice. |
These things that I write about, not only have I experienced them but they are unavoidable. If you're any kind of human, you are going to have relationships. |
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness? |
We don't have that in Britain. |