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 Copy Share Image
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn… — 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