If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.' — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or… — 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
I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much… — 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
