Books Quotes by Nick Hornby

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

— Nick Hornby

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

— Nick Hornby

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

— Nick Hornby

I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring!

— Nick Hornby

If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

— Nick Hornby

“I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.”

— Nick Hornby

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

— Nick Hornby

The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy…

— Nick Hornby

I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't…

— Nick Hornby

“Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've…

— Nick Hornby

I only read the very best music books. Donald Fagan's memoir 'Eminent Hipsters' is great. Bob Dylan's memoir 'Chronicles' and Patty Smith's…

— Nick Hornby

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

— Nick Hornby

People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see…

— Nick Hornby

I think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a…

— Nick Hornby

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

— Nick Hornby

“And I have to say, books haven’t helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries…

— Nick Hornby

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that…

— Nick Hornby

“A few years ago, Cindy joined one of those dreadful reading groups, where unhappy, repressed middle class lesbians talk for five minutes…

— Nick Hornby

We don't feel duty-bound to get all the way through a TV program. If we're not enjoying it, we turn over. Movies,…

— Nick Hornby

Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn…

— Nick Hornby

If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction…

— Nick Hornby

All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of…

— Nick Hornby

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But…

— Nick Hornby

“You see the profound effect literature can have on life? Who says it's all a waste of time? If only I could…

— Nick Hornby

“It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel)…

— Nick Hornby

“Last month I was banging on about how books were better than anything—-how just about any decent book you picked would beat…

— Nick Hornby

“It is not the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until…

— Nick Hornby

“Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off against each other and see who…

— Nick Hornby

“partially satisfied by grazing on the first few pages of several books, and as a consequence, there are half-chewed novels lying all…

— Nick Hornby

“I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs…

— Nick Hornby

So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that,…

— Nick Hornby

“Please stop patronizing those who are reading a book - The Da Vinci Code, maybe- because they are enjoying it. For a…

— Nick Hornby

“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down,…

— Nick Hornby

“But sometimes, very occasionally, songs and books and films and pictures express who you are perfectly. And they don’t do this in…

— Nick Hornby

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds…

— Nick Hornby

“Read anything, as long as you can't wait to pick it up again.”

— Nick Hornby

If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

— Nick Hornby

“I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.”

— Nick Hornby

I only want to write books and movies about women.

— Nick Hornby