English - Writer | April 17, 1957 -
I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success.
Nick Hornby
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I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.
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Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was a different world. I never wanted to be in that world. I was much happier with my mates at home.
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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.
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I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as male ones. The novels I read as a young man were all by women writers, and when I started writing, I wanted to set my books inside the home.
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Men use music and football to fill up holes in their lives.
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The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great fan of the hard work literary novel.
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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.
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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.
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Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.
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The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and to include as many different people and places and times as you want, working with pretty much only one person, the editor, whose job it is to get it in good shape for publication.
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I think I became less literary after I sold more!
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