60 Nick Hornby Quotes for You to Enjoy

Nick Hornby

English Writer

Born: Apr 17, 1957

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Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine

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

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When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun. Nick Hornby

I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth' or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn't get any of that. Nick Hornby

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I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me, and a book doing well is important because it buys you another one. Not because of the money but if you keep doing interesting work, work that people like, they will want you to do more, and offers that are interesting come in. Nick Hornby

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The more screenwriting you do, the more you become aware that particular scenes aren't going to end up in the movie because they're too expensive. That has perhaps changed the way I think about writing novels, actually, because now I write expensive scenes whenever I can. Nick Hornby

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

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There were authors I read as an adult who completely inspired me. But when I was a teenager, I got to hang out with Tom Stoppard for a bit. My mum was his wife's secretary. He was obviously super smart, but he was also approachable and normal. I think he was the first person I'd ever met who I'd thought, 'Oh, I see. There's a living in this.' Nick Hornby

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A lot of what 'Funny Girl' is about, for me, is the experience feeling very happy doing a certain thing with a certain group of people. That partly came about because of having really positive experiences writing movies. Nick Hornby

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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. Nick Hornby

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Screenwriting is about condensing. Nick Hornby

About Screenwriting

Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is. Nick Hornby

Confidence Writing About Point Wondering Anything

If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life? Nick Hornby

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I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success. Nick Hornby

Success Good Think Everybody Period Does Lot

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. Nick Hornby

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Men use music and football to fill up holes in their lives. Nick Hornby

Music Men Football Up Holes Use Fill Lives

The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great fan of the hard work literary novel. Nick Hornby

There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration. Nick Hornby

I think I became less literary after I sold more! Nick Hornby

Think Sold More Became Literary After Less

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. Nick Hornby

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

Think Intimate Most Things

I miss independent record stores very much. Nick Hornby

Independent Record Record Stores Miss Very Stores Much

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

Good Writing Seen Dramas Those Wire Like Anything

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

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My relationships are fairly stable. Nick Hornby

Relationships Fairly Stable

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