Nick Hornby Quotes

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Nick Hornby

Profession : Writer

Birth : April 17, 1957

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

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I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't.

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The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

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I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.

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The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.

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I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book. I don't want to go back over things. I don't want to adapt my own books for the screen. That's something that's important to me, the keeping it fresh.

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I used to be a teacher, and I know how difficult it is to strike a balance between focused conversation and an atmosphere which prevents creativity and thought.

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Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

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When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children if you think it's elitist - does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn't English?

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I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really clever and moving and complicated, but everybody understands the complication.

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I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once.

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I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

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I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

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We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

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Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it.

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It takes big business a couple of decades to work out how best to exploit a cultural form; once that has happened, 'that high-low fork in the road' is unavoidable, and the middle way begins to look impossibly daunting.

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Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

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I didn't really want to write about music very much in 'High Fidelity.' I wanted to write about the relationship stuff, and the music stuff is kind of a bit of fun on top and something to frame it with.

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Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

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