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
introduce listen maybe missed people somehow songs
Of course, I have no idea what you know and don't know. But I have managed to introduce these songs even to people who listen to a lot of music; maybe you have somehow managed to have missed them.
harmony peace
I'm all for peace and harmony between the sexes.
confronted fear happen liberal somebody wonder
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.
sarcasm compassion two
Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.
errors people joy
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.
career extend goes people range simply
It's more that, as my writing career goes on, I simply want to extend the range of people I'm writing about.
book books judged process published quite
The process you have to go through to get a book published is quite difficult, because books are judged by essentially serious-minded people.
degree goes line
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.
anyone hundred million sort takes time ways
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.
domestic novel
So the domestic novel can accommodate, should accommodate, a lot of extremity.
ended literally mind mood state
I think with many of the books, I've ended up dramatizing a mood or state of mind I've experienced, so they're not straightforwardly, literally autobiographical.
listening writers
I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.
books either readers respond
I write the books I want to write, and readers will either respond or not respond.
bogged english few gotten last literature
I think English literature has gotten really bogged down over the last few years.