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Book Quotes by Nick Hornby
- Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
- I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and…
- I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are…
- I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds…
- Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
- All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing…
- I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our…
- All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You…
- Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through,…
- That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a…
- Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life…
- In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!
- Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring…
- I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I…
- I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and…
- (about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes,…
- Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed…
- And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide…
- So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is…
- We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.
- Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.
- You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.
- 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 Lightness of Being"…
- Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What…
- 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.…
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