“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
No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. The other day I was in a bookstore… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just… — 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
Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“So this is supposed to be the how, and when, and why, and what or reading - about the way that, when… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want… — 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
The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I spent as much time watching telly and films when I was a kid as I did lying around reading books. I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of… — 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
