Just because it's a relationship, and it's based on soppy stuff, it doesn't mean you can't make intellectual decisions about it. Sometimes… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
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 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
And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that,… — 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
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
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