“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
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
One of the depressing things one realizes as one gets older is how much of one's tastes and attitudes are simply products… — 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
“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
“There have been times recently, since the begining of our troubles, when the site of David awake active, conscious, walking and talking… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years was a long time in the life of a woman, though, when those fifteen years had been disappointing.” — 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
“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 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
The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to… — 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
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
“It was then, for the first time, that Will saw the kind of help Marcus needed. Fiona had given him the idea… — 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
“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
“The cliche had it that kids were the future, but that wasn't it: they were the unreflective, active present. They were not… — 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
“You see the profound effect literature can have on life? Who says it's all a waste of time? If only I could… — 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 remembered what it is I like about sex: what I like about sex is that I can lose myself in it… — 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
“Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State Building or up… — 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
“You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The Marie bit is easy enough to understand, then. The Laura thing takes a bit more explaining, but what it is, I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“One can only presume that people who say that their favorite record of all time reminds them of their honeymoon in Corsica,… — 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… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance… — 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
I would like to have a go at TV. I think, especially when you have kids, that you spend a lot of… — 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
“Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth… — 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
![“No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be learned. It’s just that, every now and again, you can hit a patch of reading that makes you feel as if you’re pootling about. [...] But what can you do about it? We don’t…” quote by Nick Hornby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fed/nick-hornby-325_book_no-time-spent-with-a-book-is-ever-entire_726111.jpg)
