I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hurt her, on this day of all days, just because it's the first time since she left that I've… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the… — 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
“Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I spent as much time watching telly and films when I was a kid as I did lying around reading books. I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It was then, for the first time, that Will saw the kind of help Marcus needed. Fiona had given him the idea… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“One can only presume that people who say that their favorite record of all time reminds them of their honeymoon in Corsica,… — 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
“It would be nice to think that as I've got older times have changed, relationships have become more sophisticated, females less cruel,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State Building or up… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“In the old days, when he flew a lot, he'd never been able to get absorbed in a book until the plane… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“And that's the last time we will ever speak, probably. 'No problem': the last words I will ever say to somebody I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a room and repeats, with sardonic disbelief, a couplet… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Why it didn't occur to any of us that a well-known suicide spot would be like Piccadilly Circus on New Year's Eve.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“He wanted Rachel to be his wife, his lover, the centre of his whole world; a girlfriend implied that he would see… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Zaid's finest moment, however, comes in his second paragraph, when he says that "the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I can live this life. I can. I can. It's a spark I want to cherish, a splutter of life in the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“We all spend so much time, not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“when she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion... it was… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“But something was going to give. He was having a shit time at school and a shit time at home, and as… — 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
Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You run the risk of losing anyone who is worth spending time with, unless you are so paranoid about loss that you… — 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
“We are, a lot of the time, baffled by the news we see on the front pages of our newspapers, often because… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Laura says - Everybody's faith needs testing from time to time, I thought it would be amusing to introduce you to someone… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a… — 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
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