English - Writer | April 17, 1957 -
Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.
Nick Hornby
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People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly what Elizabeth Bennett has to overcome, what she has to deal with.
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However varied you try to make your work, you still bump up against the end of you. You keep knocking into a wall, and the wall is your own skull. But when you adapt somebody's work, it's like a door into somewhere else. It feels like a holiday from myself.
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I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.
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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.
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
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'An Education' was a complicated piece of work because it came from a tiny essay, so it took me a while to find the story I wanted to tell and the characters I wanted to tell it about. That really only emerged after four or five drafts.
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I kind of stumbled on the material for 'An Education' and thought it would make a good movie, and one of the things that came out of that, for me, was that I learned that if you write a big part for a girl or a young woman, you get the opportunity to work with the best talent in the world.
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I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really clever and moving and complicated, but everybody understands the complication.
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I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.
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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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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.
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