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
She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours'… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
And it isn't that I'm so unhappy I don't want to live anymore. That's not what it feels like. It feels more… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
What you don't catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
(About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove… — 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