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
books either readers respond
I write the books I want to write, and readers will either respond or not respond.
bad books
Books are long. Even mine. You don't want to feel bad about them as you're writing them.
books sick time top
On top of that, I'm pretty sick of working on the books by the time they're published.
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.
agonizing book omitted point reckon screen taken
I reckon 75% at least of a book has to be omitted from the screen version, and there's no point in agonizing about this once you've taken the money.
smart book people
I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!
brother book reading
All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won’t remember it, and you’ll learn nothing from it, and you’ll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.
fun book letters
And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.
football book writing
I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me. Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the West Stand at Arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way; and perhaps it is why I earn some of my living as a critic – maybe it’s those voices I can hear when I write. ‘You’re a WANKER, X.’ ‘The Booker Prize? THE BOOKER PRIZE? They should give that to me for having to read you.
book ideas clubs
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
book reading ideas
Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.
book mouths momentum
Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
book adults criminals
I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces I've never heard of.
book reading people
Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having--a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say....