“...Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important… — 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
“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 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
“I remembered what it is I like about sex: what I like about sex is that I can lose myself in it… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse… — 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
“I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.” — 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
I think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs… — 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
“But sometimes, very occasionally, songs and books and films and pictures express who you are perfectly. And they don’t do this in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You see the profound effect literature can have on life? Who says it's all a waste of time? If only I could… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...In the end I value literacy more highly than health; if our two countries were full of fat readers, rather than millions… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There were authors I read as an adult who completely inspired me. But when I was a teenager, I got to hang… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about… — 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
