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
live-life emotional unhappy
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.
emotional self lines
Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.
memories emotion ends
When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.
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.
game hardly stadium watch
And we hardly need ever go to the stadium to watch every game live, because they're all on TV.
authors content english small
English authors are very content to write for a very small audience, and I think that shows.
almost beginning british certainly england job people players stood watch
Even at the beginning of the 90s people in England stood on the terraces to watch British players who would almost certainly need a job of some kind when they retired.
bad books
Books are long. Even mine. You don't want to feel bad about them as you're writing them.
explore fragment interested kinds resonance seems start themes
I start with a fragment of narrative, or a character, something that seems to have resonance for me and which allows me to explore the kinds of themes I'm interested in.
authors liked lucky people
I've been very lucky with all my adaptations - they were made by intelligent people who liked the books, and I know that not all authors feel this way.
football
I've never particularly wanted to read a football novel.
books sick time top
On top of that, I'm pretty sick of working on the books by the time they're published.
domestic novel
So the domestic novel can accommodate, should accommodate, a lot of extremity.
chicago fidelity high mind
I didn't mind High Fidelity being set in Chicago at all.