One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now. (on David Beckham) — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I… — 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
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
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
Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic 'scientists', now claims that you can email homeopathic remedies? Yeah,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or… — 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
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
