Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby
Nicholas Peter John "Nick" Hornbyis an English novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels High Fidelity and About a Boy. Hornby's work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2009...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 April 1957
sad complicated bleakness
Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
done taste harm
What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.
should-have age forget
I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.
mad
You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.
together stories pointing
I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.
forgotten internet changed
But the internet had changed everything: nobody was forgotten anymore.
pyramids long people
...You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else.
book books judged process published quite
The process you have to go through to get a book published is quite difficult, because books are judged by essentially serious-minded people.
degree goes line
The degree of examination that goes on in film is very interesting for a writer, because there's not a line that goes unchallenged in a script.