You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to… — 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… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“She had to defend him in order to defend herself. That was why people were so prickly about their partners, even their… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“People go on about the first time being important, but it's the second time that really matters. Or the second person, anyway.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You’re my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you’re no option at all.” — 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
I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Anyway, all I'm saying is that there was this time--maybe it was a day, maybe a few days, I can't remember now--when… — 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
“In the old days, when he flew a lot, he'd never been able to get absorbed in a book until the plane… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It would be nice to think that as I've got older times have changed, relationships have become more sophisticated, females less cruel,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I can't help but love David at this moment. He's calm when he has every right to be angry with everything and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Zaid's finest moment, however, comes in his second paragraph, when he says that "the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles? — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Lots of times when I'm offered things, I can't see how a story gets filmed. Either it's too internal or it doesn't… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“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
I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I was thinking about you. About how you have to be fairly tough in your head to do what you do." "What?"… — 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
Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The fuck?” he said. “The fuck?” said Jess. “The fuck what?” “It's an American abbreviation,” said Martin. “ «The fuck?» means «What… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal. — 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
