“It is not the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When you're adapting a novel, there are always scenes taken out of the book, and no matter which scenes they are, it's… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me! — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“partially satisfied by grazing on the first few pages of several books, and as a consequence, there are half-chewed novels lying all… — 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
“So this is supposed to be the how, and when, and why, and what or reading - about the way that, when… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really… — 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
