Categories Quote by Nick Hornby Download Open image “Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.” — Nick Hornby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Categories Like Little Neat Things
I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
There's definitely a role for online booksellers, but they can't host events, bring people together, and form a personal relationship in the way a… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I talk to booksellers, they tell me how hard it is to hand-sell some of my books because I do keep popping around. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically… — Anonymous 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
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But… — Edward Davey Copy Share Image
I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time… — Martin A. Siegel Copy Share Image
A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand. — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image