“Thunder Road' knows who I am and what I feel, and that is one of the consolations of art.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Thunder Road' knows who I am and what I feel, and that, in the end, is one of the consolations of art.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Oh, it was a complicated business, loving art. It involved a lot more ill will than one might have suspected.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You know that bad people can make great art, don’t you?’Said Annie. ‘Yes, of course. Some of the people whose art I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I couldn't have written [What Good Are The Arts?] because I--and I'm not alone, by any means--do not have Carey's breadth of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The difference between sex with David and sex with Stephen is like the difference between science and art. With Stephen it's all… — 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 Image
…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 Image
“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
![“Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up…” quote by Nick Hornby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4b0/nick-hornby-325_art_of-course-tucker-crowe-was-in-pain-when_2015950.jpg)
![“I couldn't have written [What Good Are The Arts?] because I--and I'm not alone, by any means--do not have Carey's breadth of reading, nor his calm, wry logic, which enables him to demolish the arguments of just about everyone who has ever talked tosh about objective aesthetic principles. And this…” quote by Nick Hornby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/764/nick-hornby-325_art_i-couldn-t-have-written-what-good-are-th_2016521.jpg)
