It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It seems to me quite often that the journeys of young women are more moving because they are hemmed in more, and… — 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
It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this… — 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
I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be… — 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
Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their… — 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
Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by… — 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