People Quotes by Nick Hornby

“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

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

I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

— Nick Hornby

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

— Nick Hornby

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

“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

I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.

— Nick Hornby

When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

— Nick Hornby

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

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

And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them,…

— Nick Hornby

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

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

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

...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

You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that…

— Nick Hornby

I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me,…

— Nick Hornby

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence…

— Nick Hornby

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

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

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

Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn…

— Nick Hornby

[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

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

(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

My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had…

— Nick Hornby

The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved

— Nick Hornby

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

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

I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives…

— Nick Hornby

As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me,…

— Nick Hornby

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that…

— Nick Hornby

It seems to me quite often that the journeys of young women are more moving because they are hemmed in more, and…

— Nick Hornby

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

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be…

— Nick Hornby

Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane,…

— Nick Hornby

Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like…

— Nick Hornby

I like writing about popular culture. It helps to place people. I think you can be really, really accurate if you know…

— Nick Hornby

I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted…

— Nick Hornby

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