When you're adapting a novel, there are always scenes taken out of the book, and no matter which scenes they are, it's… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
'An Education' was a complicated piece of work because it came from a tiny essay, so it took me a while to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
However varied you try to make your work, you still bump up against the end of you. You keep knocking into a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“…it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It takes big business a couple of decades to work out how best to exploit a cultural form; once that has happened,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I kind of stumbled on the material for 'An Education' and thought it would make a good movie, and one of the… — 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
