We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“...In the end I value literacy more highly than health; if our two countries were full of fat readers, rather than millions… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job. — 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
“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a… — 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
Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Influential books are often a disappointment, if they're properly influential, because influence cannot guarantee the quality of the imitators, and your appetite… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons I wanted to write this column, I think, is because I assumed that the cultural highlight of my… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“So this is supposed to be the how, and when, and why, and what or reading - about the way that, when… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't… — 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
On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
![“No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be learned. It’s just that, every now and again, you can hit a patch of reading that makes you feel as if you’re pootling about. [...] But what can you do about it? We don’t…” quote by Nick Hornby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fed/nick-hornby-325_book_no-time-spent-with-a-book-is-ever-entire_726111.jpg)
