Nick Hornby Quotes

A collection of quotes by Nick Hornby.

Nick Hornby is a British author and screenwriter known for his witty and insightful works. Born on April 17, 1957, in Redhill, Surrey, Hornby gained immense popularity with his debut novel, "High Fidelity," which was later adapted into a successful film. He has since written several other acclaimed novels, including "About a Boy" and "A Long Way Down." Hornby's works often explore themes of love, relationships, and contemporary culture, and his writing style showcases his keen understanding of human emotions. He is considered one of the most prominent contemporary British writers.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

Life Adversity Inspirational Depression Hard Times

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfa

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

Life People Growing Up Irony Mothers

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world,

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

Love People Lucky About A Boy Nick Hornby

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

Life Problems Starting Over Hard

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

Life Funny Humour Fever Pitch Fooball

Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because s

Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.

Funny Love Romance Humour

(About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't

(About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely people who are happy should look happy, at all times, no matter how much money they have or how uncomfortable their shoes are or how little their child is sleeping; and people who are doing OK but have still not found their soul-mate should look, I don't know, anxious, like Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally; and people who are desperate should wear something, a yellow ribbon maybe, which would allow them to be identified by similar desperate people.

Humor Funny Love

I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happen

I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, the whole works--is simply asking too much of a reader. Something happening in a phony way must beat nothing happening in a phony way every time, right? I mean, you could prove that, mathematically, in an equation, and you can't often apply science to literature.

Science Reading Writing Literature

These feelings were exactly what he had been so afraid of, a

These feelings were exactly what he had been so afraid of, and this was why he had been so sure that falling in love was rubbish, and, surprise surprise, it was rubbish, and... and it was too late.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat i

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