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 get excited about having finished a new book.
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Have you got any soul?"" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.
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But I reserve the right to write the kinds of books I feel like writing.
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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.
These things that I write about, not only have I experienced them but they are unavoidable. If you're any kind of human, you are going to have relationships.
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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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In other words, it's too tough to be a musician at the moment.
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I am 45, and I am not ready for carpet slippers and 10:30 bedtimes, but I am middle-aged.
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I don't worry too much about what I am, what I do, what I want to do.
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I could, I think, write a literary novel, but I have no desire to - even my bleakest book has some jokes in it, and I'd feel nervous writing a book with no jokes.
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I came away with the idea that I'd like to write books the way people write screenplays. I think I'm not going to let another line go through unexamined.
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Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.
book reading journey
Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.