{"quotes":[{"text":"I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wanted my hour a week to make the difference between a future addicted to heroin and a future studying English at Oxford. That was the sort of kid I wanted, and instead they'd given me someone whose chief interest was in eating fruit. I mean, what did he need to read for? There's an international symbol for the gents' toilets, and he could always get his mother to tell him what was on television.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["children","disadvantaged","english","fruit","gents-toilets","heroin","intelligent","learning-to-read","martin-sharpe","oxford","pacino","prodigy","reading","symbol","telly","tutoring"],"id":173512,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["daleks","exterminate","martin-sharpe","problems","stairs"],"id":309224,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}