List of Nick Hornby Quotes

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Nick Hornby
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We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.
Heart Talking Years
By the early seventies i had become an englishman - that is to say, i hated england just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.
Half England Hated
The kind of love my mum talks about is full of worry and work and forgiving people and putting up with things and stuff like that. it's not a lot of fun, that's for sure. if that really is love, the kind my mum talks about, then nobody can ever know if they love somebody, can they? it seems like what she's saying is, if you're pretty sure you love somebody, the way i was sure in those few weeks, then you can't love them, because that isn't what love is. trying to understand what she means by love would do your head in.
Love Fun Mean
The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.
Narrative Behind You Bunch
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 that you can build into a coherent whole.
Crazy Writing Definitions
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
Football Radio Common
Most people get suicide, i guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.
Suicide Suicidal Next Day
It struck him that how you spent christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself
Christmas World Messages
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.
Book Ideas Clubs
Did you know that jacques benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic 'scientists', now claims that you can email homeopathic remedies? yeah, see, what you do is you can take the 'memory' of the diluted substance out of the water electromagnetically, put it on your computer, email it, and play it back on a sound card into new water. i mean, that could work, right?
Memories Mean Play
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 that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, i've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces i've never heard of.
Book Adults Criminals
...so please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. we do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.
Real Imagination Unexpected
  • Born: April 17, 1957
  • Occupation: Novelist
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