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
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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 degree of examination that goes on in film is very interesting for a writer, because there's not a line that goes unchallenged in a script.
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It's more that, as my writing career goes on, I simply want to extend the range of people I'm writing about.
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There's a hundred million different ways of writing, and it takes you a long time to sort through that stuff. And I think it takes anyone a long time to find a voice.
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In other words, it's too tough to be a musician at the moment.
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I reckon 75% at least of a book has to be omitted from the screen version, and there's no point in agonizing about this once you've taken the money.
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But I reserve the right to write the kinds of books I feel like writing.
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If you're a best-selling writer, then they just want to chuck the book out there, because people will buy it anyway.
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In the US that layer of celebrity is occupied by film. We don't have that in Britain.
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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 get excited about having finished a new book.
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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.