Writer Quotes by Nick Hornby

Reading begets reading.

— Nick Hornby

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

— Nick Hornby

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

— Nick Hornby

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

— Nick Hornby

I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring!

— Nick Hornby

“I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.”

— Nick Hornby

“The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done.”

— Nick Hornby

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

— Nick Hornby

Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

— Nick Hornby

The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy…

— Nick Hornby

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

“Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've…

— Nick Hornby

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

— Nick Hornby

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

— Nick Hornby

“...In the end I value literacy more highly than health; if our two countries were full of fat readers, rather than millions…

— Nick Hornby

It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding…

— Nick Hornby

If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

— Nick Hornby

“I work it out. It is the act of reading itself I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the…

— Nick Hornby

Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn…

— Nick Hornby

All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of…

— Nick Hornby

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But…

— Nick Hornby

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

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

The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and…

— Nick Hornby

“Influential books are often a disappointment, if they're properly influential, because influence cannot guarantee the quality of the imitators, and your appetite…

— Nick Hornby

“(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character…

— Nick Hornby

“Please stop patronizing those who are reading a book - The Da Vinci Code, maybe- because they are enjoying it. For a…

— Nick Hornby

“Last month I was banging on about how books were better than anything—-how just about any decent book you picked would beat…

— Nick Hornby

“It is not the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until…

— Nick Hornby

“Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off against each other and see who…

— Nick Hornby

“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down,…

— Nick Hornby

So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that,…

— Nick Hornby

“I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does…

— Nick Hornby

The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

— Nick Hornby

I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

— Nick Hornby

“Read anything, as long as you can't wait to pick it up again.”

— Nick Hornby

If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

— Nick Hornby

When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'

— Nick Hornby

“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a…

— Nick Hornby

The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great…

— Nick Hornby