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Nick Hornby Quotes

English - Writer | April 17, 1957 -

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!

Smart People Feel Want Books Would

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

Sad Sadness Complicated Everything

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

Good Want Question Own Our How

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

Football Disappointment Matter Score

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

Health Quality Youth Young Abundance

It takes big business a couple of decades to work out how best to exploit a cultural form; once that has happened, 'that high-low fork in the road' is unavoidable, and the middle way begins to look impossibly daunting.

Work Business Best Road Look Way

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

Little Things Like Neat Put

I didn't really want to write about music very much in 'High Fidelity.' I wanted to write about the relationship stuff, and the music stuff is kind of a bit of fun on top and something to frame it with.

Music Relationship Fun Want Kind

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

World Song Someone Sometimes Own

I like writing about popular culture. It helps to place people. I think you can be really, really accurate if you know enough about it, and place people precisely.

Culture People Writing Think Enough

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.

Good Purpose Blame You Find Pretty

I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't want to hang out with me if I stopped.

Me Want Out Scared Hang Whole

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