Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The kind of love my mum talks about is full of worry and work and forgiving people and putting up with things… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It seems to me quite often that the journeys of young women are more moving because they are hemmed in more, and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The more screenwriting you do, the more you become aware that particular scenes aren't going to end up in the movie because… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Dylan's 'Chronicles' is easily the best rock n' roll memoir ever written, as far as I'm concerned. There aren't many stories in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up,… — 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
You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We don't feel duty-bound to get all the way through a TV program. If we're not enjoying it, we turn over. Movies,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would… — 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
