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
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I'm all for peace and harmony between the sexes.
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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.
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But Arsenal fans are probably in two minds about it all, because the last decade has been the best of our lifetimes. We've seen fantastic football, and we've seen our team win a lot of trophies.
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I don't think of "High Fidelity" as a real hip book.
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I don't think that most songwriters can ever anticipate quite what their songs are going to mean to people.
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Have you got any soul?"" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.
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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.
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I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way.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 still maintain that music is the best way of getting the self-expression job done.
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I write the books I want to write, and readers will either respond or not respond.
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I think English literature has gotten really bogged down over the last few years.
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I get excited about having finished a new book.
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I didn't mind High Fidelity being set in Chicago at all.
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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.