I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success.
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Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty.
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I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once.
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I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't.
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When you're adapting a novel, there are always scenes taken out of the book, and no matter which scenes they are, it's always someone's favorite. As a screenwriter, you realize, 'Well, it doesn't work if you include everyone's favorite scenes.'
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I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.
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I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth' or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn't get any of that.
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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.
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I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.
