For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron. Nick Hornby More Quotes by Nick Hornby More Quotes From Nick Hornby Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs. Nick Hornby threateningawkwardflesh On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do, and smile at people even if he disapproved of them Nick Hornby new-yearpeopleyears Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty. Nick Hornby readingbookideas I have a really low boredom threshold. Nick Hornby thresholdboredomlows I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we have our hearts broken, suffer the loss of loved ones, worry ourselves half to death about our kids. Nick Hornby live-lifeheartkids Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded. Nick Hornby lonelinessoppositestrying But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week. Nick Hornby weeknarrativekind I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me. Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the West Stand at Arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way; and perhaps it is why I earn some of my living as a critic – maybe it’s those voices I can hear when I write. ‘You’re a WANKER, X.’ ‘The Booker Prize? THE BOOKER PRIZE? They should give that to me for having to read you. Nick Hornby writingfootballbook Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination. Nick Hornby stimulantspowerfulimagination I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they? Nick Hornby feelingsrunningsong I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring! Nick Hornby boringwantbook Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic 'scientists', now claims that you can email homeopathic remedies? Yeah, see, what you do is you can take the 'memory' of the diluted substance out of the water electromagnetically, put it on your computer, email it, and play it back on a sound card into new water. I mean, that could work, right? Nick Hornby playmemoriesmean It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own. Nick Hornby realhurtfootball What good were real feelings anyway? Nick Hornby real-feelingsrealfeelings You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't. Nick Hornby heartrememberthinking ...You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else. Nick Hornby pyramidslongpeople What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste. Nick Hornby harmdonetaste No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be learned. It’s just that, every now and again, you can hit a patch of reading that makes you feel as if you’re pootling about. [...] But what can you do about it? We don’t choose to waste our reading time; it just happens. The books let us down. Nick Hornby wastereadingbook You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong. Nick Hornby walks I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible. Nick Hornby breakupbreak-upreal
