Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.

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.