I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives… — 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
On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would… — 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
Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had… — 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
“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
...You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people… — 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
I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I like writing about popular culture. It helps to place people. I think you can be really, really accurate if you know… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence… — 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
When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad. — 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
