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Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby

English Writer

Born: Apr 17, 1957

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I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance. Nick Hornby

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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. Nick Hornby

The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir. Nick Hornby

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I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way. Nick Hornby

Book Every Think Bookstore Way Entertain Some Should

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

People Those Gloomy Am Quite Just Vaguely

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

Time Something Adult Doing Stop Leisure Leisure Time Should Enjoying

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

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

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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? Nick Hornby

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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. Nick Hornby

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People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly what Elizabeth Bennett has to overcome, what she has to deal with. Nick Hornby

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? Nick Hornby

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'An Education' was a complicated piece of work because it came from a tiny essay, so it took me a while to find the story I wanted to tell and the characters I wanted to tell it about. That really only emerged after four or five drafts. Nick Hornby

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With 'Brooklyn,' I knew the story I wanted to tell, and I just had a very strong sense that if I turned the volume up a little bit, it could be something really special. Nick Hornby

When you're adapting a novel, there are always scenes taken out of the book, and no matter which scenes they are, it's always someone's favorite. As a screenwriter, you realize, 'Well, it doesn't work if you include everyone's favorite scenes.' Nick Hornby

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