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
football
I've never particularly wanted to read a football novel.
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I start with a fragment of narrative, or a character, something that seems to have resonance for me and which allows me to explore the kinds of themes I'm interested in.
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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.
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And we hardly need ever go to the stadium to watch every game live, because they're all on TV.
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English authors are very content to write for a very small audience, and I think that shows.
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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.
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On top of that, I'm pretty sick of working on the books by the time they're published.
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Books are long. Even mine. You don't want to feel bad about them as you're writing them.
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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 don't think of "High Fidelity" as a real hip book.
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I don't think that most songwriters can ever anticipate quite what their songs are going to mean to people.
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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 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.