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
ties people long
Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.
world feels ifs
I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?
flower kissing color
You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown...and then bang, that's it. Gone forever. And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change.
failing happens
So now what? What happens when words fail us?
children
It takes a child to say the unsayable.
treats treat-yourself
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 that's where I get eaten up.
eye blood water
I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.
artistic ends temperament
The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.
turkeys miracle monkeys
It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.
humans
I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.
phones numbers people
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
memories mean play
Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic 'scientists', now claims that you can email homeopathic remedies? Yeah, see, what you do is you can take the 'memory' of the diluted substance out of the water electromagnetically, put it on your computer, email it, and play it back on a sound card into new water. I mean, that could work, right?
dramatic being-human enough
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone
new-year years people
On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do, and smile at people even if he disapproved of them