But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Will restrained a desire to leap in at this point and tell her that an inability to hold down a relationship was… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“But I want to see Clara, Charlie's friend, who's right up my street. I want to see her because I don't know… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favourite films wouldn't… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel)… — 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
