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.
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On top of that, I'm pretty sick of working on the books by the time they're published.
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The process you have to go through to get a book published is quite difficult, because books are judged by essentially serious-minded people.
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But I reserve the right to write the kinds of books I feel like writing.
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I came away with the idea that I'd like to write books the way people write screenplays. I think I'm not going to let another line go through unexamined.
listening writers
I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.
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I think English literature has gotten really bogged down over the last few years.
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Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.
errors people joy
That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.
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.
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I don't think of "High Fidelity" as a real hip book.
anticipate mean quite songs
I don't think that most songwriters can ever anticipate quite what their songs are going to mean to people.
excited finished
I get excited about having finished a new book.