Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What I needed more than anything was a place where unfocused unhappiness could thrive, where I could be still and worry and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like… — 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
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
“Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any… — 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
“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
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
