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
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
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
“I can live this life. I can. I can. It's a spark I want to cherish, a splutter of life in the… — 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
We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“We are, a lot of the time, baffled by the news we see on the front pages of our newspapers, often because… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I spent as much time watching telly and films when I was a kid as I did lying around reading books. I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Laura says - Everybody's faith needs testing from time to time, I thought it would be amusing to introduce you to someone… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“His way of coping with the days was to think of activities as units of time, each unit consisting of about thirty… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hurt her, on this day of all days, just because it's the first time since she left that I've… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favourite films wouldn't… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds… — 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
Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You run the risk of losing anyone who is worth spending time with, unless you are so paranoid about loss that you… — 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
