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"50 Nick Hornby Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 17 April 1957 | Writer | Lyricist |

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Any Book Case Changed
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I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

Anyone Books Exclude Excluded
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Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
Complicated Even Everything Flat
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We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Badness Becomes Cope Good
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Common Denominator Football Lowest
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The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

Bitter Disappointment Fan Football
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I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.

Am Gloomy Just People
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Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

Her Make Mitchell Own
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The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

Awful Blame Books Find
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I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.
About Close Detail Enough
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If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

Book Done Every Found
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Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity.

Austerity Because End He
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When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'

Book Else Read Says
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Lots of times when I'm offered things, I can't see how a story gets filmed. Either it's too internal or it doesn't have a strong spine.
Either Gets How Internal
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Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.

Attached Need People Person
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I only want to write books and movies about women.
About Books Movies Only
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Why are we scared of a '50s weepie? Why are we scared of a movie that pulls you in and punches you in the stomach?

Movie Punches Scared Stomach
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Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

Between Create Duty Once
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The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading.

Any Fun Going Listening
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I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal.

About Challenge Equal Exactly
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My computer is littered with abandoned projects.

Abandoned Computer Projects Littered
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The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.

Campaign Candidates Hollywood Know
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I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.
Anyone Art Consolation Firmly
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It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music.
Any English Kind Listen
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If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

Book Gripping Reading Wrong
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I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

Connected Deeply Feel Imagine
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I've always been able to enjoy aspects of my life.
Able Always Aspects Been
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You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that some people respond to.

Anything Ask Doing Entire
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The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

Because Easiest Fever Memoir
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Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty.

About Am Difference Difficulty
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Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

About Anything Confidence Point
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If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life?

About Everything Going Got
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I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success.

Everybody Good Lot Period
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I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.
Attention Draws Itself Produce
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We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.

After Embark Fail First
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Men use music and football to fill up holes in their lives.

Fill Football Holes Lives
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It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding like me. All writers must experience that.

All Come Cooking Could
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Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.
Come Easily Given Impediment
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Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart from 'Match of the Day.'

Apart Because Day Football
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If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it.

Adult Doing Enjoying Leisure
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I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.

Intimate Most Things Think
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I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.

About Answer Books Done
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It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.
Bad Great Parent Relief
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The Internet's changed everything. There are no record stores to hang out in anymore.

Anymore Changed Everything Hang
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My relationships are fairly stable.
Relationships Fairly Stable
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With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

Always Feels Getting Like
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I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.
Book Book store Entertain Every
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I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance.

Aware Big Ignorance Own
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I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

Got Move Move On Paragraph
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There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration.

Convert Could Creative Day
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Nick Hornby Quotes & Sayings