All the Oscars stuff for 'An Education' was incredibly exciting, especially because it was such an underdog project - no one would… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me,… — 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
There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more adult than sticking with a relationship that’s falling apart in the hope that you can put it right?… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“They're not me, but I wish I was them. Maybe not them, exactly, because they're not so happy either. But I wish… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You know that things aren’t going well for you when you can’t even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just… — 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
“Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Most days, for the last dozen or so years, I attributed to Charlie, or at least to our breakup, most things that… — 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
“As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of people around me, is… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Kids must spend half their lives throwing things at the ducks in Regent's Park. How come he managed to pick a duck… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I don't think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“(Even Tucker's way of not living could be described as living, if you had a crush on him.)” — 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 can live this life. I can. I can. It's a spark I want to cherish, a splutter of life in the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life? — 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
