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"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."

"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."

"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."

"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."
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"We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour."

"In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment."

"I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing."

"Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now."

"Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone."

"I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music."

"I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it."
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