Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.

I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.

Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.