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
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.
girl mad ugly
Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".
world feels ifs
I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?
ties people long
Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.
fun lying writing
Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you've had? So they look like a play?' Well you should. It's fun. I keep them. Look through them, sometimes.
manifestation combustion
The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.
mean weather decision
Just because it's a relationship, and it's based on soppy stuff, it doesn't mean you can't make intellectual decisions about it. Sometimes you just have to, otherwise you'll never get anywhere. That's where I've been going wrong. I've been letting the weather and my stomach muscles and a great chord change in a Pretenders single make up my mind for me, and I want to do it for myself.
dream sleep night
I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do; they save their best pairs for the nights when they are going to sleep with somebody. When you live with a woman, these faded, shrunken tatty scraps suddenly appear on radiators all over the house; your lascivious schoolboy dreams of adulthood as a time when you are surrounded by exotic lingerie for ever and ever amen...those dreams crumble to dust.
book remember forget
We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.