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
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.
musician tough words
In other words, it's too tough to be a musician at the moment.
domestic novel
So the domestic novel can accommodate, should accommodate, a lot of extremity.
chicago fidelity high mind
I didn't mind High Fidelity being set in Chicago at all.
books sick time top
On top of that, I'm pretty sick of working on the books by the time they're published.
celebrity layer occupied
In the US that layer of celebrity is occupied by film. We don't have that in Britain.
carpet ready slippers
I am 45, and I am not ready for carpet slippers and 10:30 bedtimes, but I am middle-aged.
bogged english few gotten last literature
I think English literature has gotten really bogged down over the last few years.
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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.
introduce listen maybe missed people somehow songs
Of course, I have no idea what you know and don't know. But I have managed to introduce these songs even to people who listen to a lot of music; maybe you have somehow managed to have missed them.
harmony peace
I'm all for peace and harmony between the sexes.
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.
relationship crush thinking
I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.