“A couple of months ago, I became depressed by the realization that I'd forgotten pretty much everything I've ever read. I have,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I'm equally sure, however, that I won't walk into a lamp-post while reading {literature}, like I did with {a legal thriller} all… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all. — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway. — Nick Hornby Copy Share
I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
