“And now here Annie was, allowing her day to become gloriously colored by a communication from a man she'd never even met.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“So the whole conversation is going right off course. It's like a supermarket trolley with a wonky wheel, because all the time… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I've had countless conversations with or about people who are "sleeping in separate bedrooms", as if sleeping in the same bed is… — 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… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I’m beginning to feel more embarrassed about the conversation than about anything we’ve just done. Horny? They really use that word? Jesus.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Dialogue in the works of autobiography is quite naturally viewed with some suspicion. How on earth can the writer remember verbatim conversations… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“But later, just as we're turning the corner into my road, and I'm beginning to panic about the pain and difficulty of… — 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
