” Youth is a quality not unlike health: it’s found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it. “
” I like writing about popular culture. It helps to place people. I think you can be really, really accurate if you know enough about it, and place people precisely. “
” 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. “
” Your failure to enjoy a highly rated novel doesn’t mean you’re dim – you may find that Graham Greene is more to your taste, or Stephen Hawking or Iris Murdoch or Ian Rankin. Dickens, Stephen King, whoever. “
” When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read ‘Ulysses’ and that you’re just giving up on children if you think it’s elitist – does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn’t English? “
” If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you’ve done a great job. “
” Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity. “
” When someone says they’ve read your book 15 times, you think, ‘Well, you should read something else. “
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