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
book ideas clubs
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.
powerful imagination stimulants
Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
book reading ideas
Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.
one-day able next
One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.
book mouths momentum
Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
player fans asking
An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.
cold unhappiness drag
Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.
done taste harm
What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.
narrative kind week
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.
people want tiny
It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead
crazy writing definitions
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.
football radio common
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
loneliness opposites trying
Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded.
girl interesting missing
We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in any form that interested us, anyway, and the next you couldn't miss them; they were everywhere, all over the place. One moment you wanted to clonk them on the head for being your sister, or someone else's sister, and the next you wanted to....actually, we didn't know what we wanted next, but it was something. Almost overnight, all these sisters (there was no other kind of girl, not yet)had become interesting, disturbing, even.