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
men self worst-enemy
...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.
smart odds people
Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?
suicidal people far-away
I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.
mean thinking pissed-off
She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.
cat doors healthy
I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.
want keep-going
The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.
two roots together
Love and charity share the same root word (caritas). How is that possible, when everything in our recent history suggest they cannot coexist, that they are antiethical, that if you put the two of them together in a sack they would bite and scratch and scream, until one of them is torn apart?
heart thinking remember
You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.
children
It takes a child to say the unsayable.
girl book mean
I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I’ve understood them. They’re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash’s autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.
book want boring
I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring!
people together splits
We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.
men remember should
Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.
home lunch victory
Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.