So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends, it had always struck him as a peculiarly… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The kind of love my mum talks about is full of worry and work and forgiving people and putting up with things… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Oh, it was a complicated business, loving art. It involved a lot more ill will than one might have suspected.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“See, records have helped me to fall in love, no question. I hear something new, with a chord change that melts my… — 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
[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Someone like my mum would say, Oh, you're just a kid, you don't know what love is.But I didn't think of anything… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“But there was an important and essential truth contained in the idea, and the truth was that these things matter, and it’s… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“And I have to say, books haven’t helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries… — 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