Nick Hornby Quotes

One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.

One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it. What

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions.

People go on about the first time being important, but it's the second time that really matters. Or the second person, anyway.

Perhaps he would wake up the next morning realizing that he’d made an utter ass of himself, but there were worse animals than the ass. And in London you saw asses wandering around everywhere. Nobody s...

Problema della mia generazione è che ci sentiamo tutti dei geni del cazzo. Far qualcosa per noi non è abbastanza, e neanche vendere qualcosa, o insegnare qualcosa o solamente combinare qualcosa: no, n...

So it’s not about what you do. It can’t be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and

So now what? What happens when words fail us?

So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right thing, and with in two hours find something to feel guilty about.

So you weren’t interested in the music at all? Well, yes. A bit. And more so then than I am now. That’s life, though, isn’t it? But you see…That’s all there is of me. There isn’t anything else. If you...

So, have you split up now?

Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else. I don’t listen to classical music or jazz very often, and when people ask me what music I like, I find it very difficult to repl...

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That’s what family stories were—amusing accounts of the messes and the fuckups. Take away the love and the laughter, narrate the stories as if the characters had acted with malice and self-absorption,...

The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.

The trouble with history, it seems to me, is that there are too many people involved.

Walbourne's fluid, tasteful, beautiful solos drop the jaw, stop the heart, and smack the gob, all at the same time.

We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.

We wrote about whatever we wanted, and we ended up with eighteen million people watching us. That’s the thing about television comedy, isn’t it? It makes us all a part of something. That’s what I love...