I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes… — 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
The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I was thinking about you. About how you have to be fairly tough in your head to do what you do." "What?"… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have… — 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
