“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
It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years. — 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
I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me,… — 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
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
“Please stop patronizing those who are reading a book - The Da Vinci Code, maybe- because they are enjoying it. For a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel)… — 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
“(to father) Aren't you glad that you've never had to buy vegeterian cookery books as the first small step on the road… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In a way, novel writing is such a permanently student lifestyle. When it comes to movies, and you have to go to… — 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
“A few years ago, Cindy joined one of those dreadful reading groups, where unhappy, repressed middle class lesbians talk for five minutes… — 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
“The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. The other day I was in a bookstore… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down,… — 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
