Think Quotes

It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I’ve gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency

That is much of what I think the writer’s job is – to slow people down.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.

What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it’s not something I’ve ever used and I don’t think I ever will.

They’re classic themes, which is why I think it’s such a great story to look at again.