Author: Nick Hornby

Quotes

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.

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.

- Nick Hornby

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

- Nick Hornby

Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it.

Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it.

- Nick Hornby

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.

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.

- Nick Hornby

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.

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.

- Nick Hornby

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

- Nick Hornby

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