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Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

Book Dip Out Songs
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Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.

Cutting Finished ISee IWrite
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If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
About Else Equation Know
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I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

Around Fashion Feel Taste
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I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

Comic Consider Entertain Find
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

Anybody Does Happy Know
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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

Balm Beauty Intended Kind
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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.

Any Book Case Changed
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I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

Anyone Books Exclude Excluded
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Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
Complicated Even Everything Flat
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We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Badness Becomes Cope Good
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Common Denominator Football Lowest
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The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

Bitter Disappointment Fan Football
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I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.

Am Gloomy Just People
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Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

Her Make Mitchell Own
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The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

Awful Blame Books Find
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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.
About Close Detail Enough
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If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

Book Done Every Found
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Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity.

Austerity Because End He
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When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'

Book Else Read Says
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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.
Either Gets How Internal
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Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.

Attached Need People Person
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I only want to write books and movies about women.
About Books Movies Only
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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?

Movie Punches Scared Stomach
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Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

Between Create Duty Once
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The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading.

Any Fun Going Listening
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I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal.

About Challenge Equal Exactly
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Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Love Rain Drizzle Starts pouring
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Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

Misery Gentle Leaves Thumbprints
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

Woman Worth Grandmother Carved
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When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

Write Handful Unruly Strands
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...women, brave as stars at dawn
Women Brave Stars Dawn
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I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.
Timeless waters Endless sea World
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People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

People Hopeful Biggest
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So much had fallen into the sea. Hats fell in to the sea. Hearts fell into the sea. So much had fallen into the sea

Fallen Sea Hearts
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All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Hope Love Cup Waterfall
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Anger is a wasted emotion.
Anger Wasted Emotion
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No one will love you more than you love your pain.

Love One Pain
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They say behind mountains are more mountains.
Behind Mountains
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You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
Learned School Pencil Paper
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The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.

Women Family Death Meet
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Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

Here Sky Moon Stars
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Two mountains can never meet but perhaps you and I can meet again. I am coming to your waterfall

Mountains Meet Waterfall
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For so long this had been my life, but it was all in the past. Now we all had to try and find the future.

Life Past Future
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My computer is littered with abandoned projects.

Abandoned Computer Projects Littered
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Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain.

Fatigue Desire Story Closer
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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

Pretend Miracles Believe
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Why is it that when you lose something, it is always in the last place that you look for it? Because of course, once you remember, you always stop looking.

Lose Last place Stop Looking
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Sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us”

Hope Biggest Weapon
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The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.

Campaign Candidates Hollywood Know
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