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.
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.
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.
dream sleep night
I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do; they save their best pairs for the nights when they are going to sleep with somebody. When you live with a woman, these faded, shrunken tatty scraps suddenly appear on radiators all over the house; your lascivious schoolboy dreams of adulthood as a time when you are surrounded by exotic lingerie for ever and ever amen...those dreams crumble to dust.
manifestation combustion
The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.
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I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.