Nick Hornby Quotes

What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it.

Fifteen years was a long time in the life of a woman, though, when those fifteen years had been disappointing.

Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thou...

You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.

You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish. You always seem to miss what...

Dialogue in the works of autobiography is quite naturally viewed with some suspicion. How on earth can the writer remember verbatim conversations that happened fifteen, twenty, fifty years ago? But 'A...

One can only presume that people who say that their favorite record of all time reminds them of their honeymoon in Corsica, or of their family Chihuahua, don't actually like music very much.

Den musik man redan har räcker inte en hel livstid, inte om man lyssnar på musik varje dag och så fort man kommer åt.

Mengapa orang-orang ini ingin membuat hal menjadi rumit bagi mereka? Ini adalah hidup yang mudah, seperti sebuah persoalan matematika yang sederhana; Resiko menyukai seseorang dan membiarkan dirimu di...

Zaid's finest moment, however, comes in his second paragraph, when he says that the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for mo...

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

Oh, it was a complicated business, loving art. It involved a lot more ill will than one might have suspected.

Bu kitap minimalist bir ressamla ilgili ve konu minimalist sanat olduğu zaman fark ettim ki ben agnostik hatta belki ateistim.Bu kelimeleri kullanıyorum çünkü bence minimalizme ya inanırsınız ya da in...

Contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.

Nobody should have children just because it made the photo library on the computer more interesting.

At around four o'clock most Saturday afternoons, just when I make us all a cup of tea, I have a little glow on, maybe because this is after all my work, and it's going OK, maybe because I'm proud of u...

Non ci dimentichiamo mai che alcuni libri sono scritti male; però dovremmo ricordarci che a volte sono anche letti male.

I’m thinking: am I supposed to fight, and what do I fight with, and whom am I fighting?

Kau harus hidup dalam gelembungmu sendiri. Kau tidak bisa memaksa masuk ke dalam gelembung milik orang lain, karena dengan begitu, itu tak lagi menjadi gelembung.

Jackie and Phil are the most boring people in the southeast of England, possibly because they've been married too long, and therefore have nothing to talk about, apart from how long they've been marri...