And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
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
I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will… — 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
Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad". — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness? — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
And it isn't that I'm so unhappy I don't want to live anymore. That's not what it feels like. It feels more… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water… — 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
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
