Youth is a quality not unlike health it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it.
You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that some people respond to.
Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.
Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.
With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.
Why are we scared of a '50s weepie? Why are we scared of a movie that pulls you in and punches you in the stomach?
Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty.
When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.
The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen.
The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
The Internet's changed everything. There are no record stores to hang out in anymore.
The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.
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.
Screenwriting is about condensing.
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.
My relationships are fairly stable.
My computer is littered with abandoned projects.
Men use music and football to fill up holes in their lives.
Lots of times when I'm offered things, I can't see how a story gets filmed. Either it's too internal or it doesn't have a strong spine.
Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.
Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity.
It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.
It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music.
It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.
If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life?
If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.
