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
musician tough words
In other words, it's too tough to be a musician at the moment.
ended literally mind mood state
I think with many of the books, I've ended up dramatizing a mood or state of mind I've experienced, so they're not straightforwardly, literally autobiographical.
confronted fear happen liberal somebody wonder
I'm a liberal, unrepentantly so, but I often wonder and fear what would happen if I were confronted by any of my liberal beliefs, by somebody who actually who wanted to put them into practice.
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.
narrative kind week
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.
narrative behind-you bunch
The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.
scratches morphine crosses
He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.
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.