Nick Hornby Quotes

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Nick Hornby

Profession : Writer

Birth : April 17, 1957

Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.

Nick Hornby

The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and to include as many different people and places and times as you want, working with pretty much only one person, the editor, whose job it is to get it in good shape for publication.

Nick Hornby

I think I became less literary after I sold more!

Nick Hornby

All the Oscars stuff for 'An Education' was incredibly exciting, especially because it was such an underdog project - no one would give us the money for it, and we all nearly gave up because it wasn't getting anywhere, then suddenly a breakthrough and this really lovely film, which then took on a life of its own.

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Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart from 'Match of the Day.'

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If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it.

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It seems to me quite often that the journeys of young women are more moving because they are hemmed in more, and dramatically it's more interesting to think about and write about people whose lives are circumscribed in some way.

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I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

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I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

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I've never met anyone who is seriously bad.

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I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.

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At a crude estimate, I must have played 'Thunder Road' 1,500 times.

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I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.

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I used to go and see the Clash a fair bit. I did think they were dead cool, and very handsome.

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I'd say I got into Marvin Gaye properly in college.

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I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.

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I miss independent record stores very much.

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The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen.

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It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.

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The Internet's changed everything. There are no record stores to hang out in anymore.

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