Nick Hornby Quotes (77 Quotes)

I'm all for peace and harmony between the sexes.

I've been very lucky with all my adaptations - they were made by intelligent people who liked the books, and I know that not all authors feel this way.

I came away with the idea that I'd like to write books the way people write screenplays. I think I'm not going to let another line go through unexamined.

Books are long. Even mine. You don't want to feel bad about them as you're writing them.

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

It's more that, as my writing career goes on, I simply want to extend the range of people I'm writing about.

I don't think of High Fidelity as a real hip book.

I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they

Even at the beginning of the 90s people in England stood on the terraces to watch British players who would almost certainly need a job of some kind when they retired.

I could, I think, write a literary novel, but I have no desire to - even my bleakest book has some jokes in it, and I'd feel nervous writing a book with no jokes.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

I didn't mind High Fidelity being set in Chicago at all.

Have you got any soul a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

In the US that layer of celebrity is occupied by film. We don't have that in Britain.

I think English literature has gotten really bogged down over the last few years.

And we hardly need ever go to the stadium to watch every game live, because they're all on TV.

Of course, I have no idea what you know and don't know. But I have managed to introduce these songs even to people who listen to a lot of music maybe you have somehow managed to have missed them.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Funny sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.

I don't worry too much about what I am, what I do, what I want to do.

Most of the work, the jokes and the observations and the smaller narrative episodes, come with the actual writing rather than with the preparation.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

If you're a best-selling writer, then they just want to chuck the book out there, because people will buy it anyway.

But I reserve the right to write the kinds of books I feel like writing.

I reckon 75 at least of a book has to be omitted from the screen version, and there's no point in agonizing about this once you've taken the money.

I am 45, and I am not ready for carpet slippers and 1030 bedtimes, but I am middle-aged.