Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby
Nicholas Peter John "Nick" Hornbyis an English novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels High Fidelity and About a Boy. Hornby's work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2009...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 April 1957
bad books
Books are long. Even mine. You don't want to feel bad about them as you're writing them.
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Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.
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That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.
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I didn't mind High Fidelity being set in Chicago at all.
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Most of the work, the jokes and the observations and the smaller narrative episodes, come with the actual writing rather than with the preparation.
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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.
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But Arsenal fans are probably in two minds about it all, because the last decade has been the best of our lifetimes. We've seen fantastic football, and we've seen our team win a lot of trophies.
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I'm all for peace and harmony between the sexes.
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I'm a liberal, unrepentantly so, but I often wonder and fear what would happen if I were confronted by any of my liberal beliefs, by somebody who actually who wanted to put them into practice.
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The process you have to go through to get a book published is quite difficult, because books are judged by essentially serious-minded people.
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I still maintain that music is the best way of getting the self-expression job done.
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I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.
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I think English literature has gotten really bogged down over the last few years.
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I write the books I want to write, and readers will either respond or not respond.