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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Even at the beginning of the 90s people in England stood on the terraces to watch British players who would almost certainly need a job of some kind when they retired.
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Books are long. Even mine. You don't want to feel bad about them as you're writing them.
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And we hardly need ever go to the stadium to watch every game live, because they're all on TV.
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English authors are very content to write for a very small audience, and I think that shows.
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Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.
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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.
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Most of the work, the jokes and the observations and the smaller narrative episodes, come with the actual writing rather than with the preparation.
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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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I've never particularly wanted to read a football novel.
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I've been very lucky with all my adaptations - they were made by intelligent people who liked the books, and I know that not all authors feel this way.
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So the domestic novel can accommodate, should accommodate, a lot of extremity.
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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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I start with a fragment of narrative, or a character, something that seems to have resonance for me and which allows me to explore the kinds of themes I'm interested in.
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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.