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.

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 17, 1957

Topics

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Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.

John Burnside

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Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.

Jennifer Weiner

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I remember when New Labour got in. I was at Salford Tech studying drama, and everyone was jumping up and down, and I was so upset, I went to a phone box and called my granddad.

Maxine Peake

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A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Robert Smithson

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America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

Steve Earle

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Not everybody is Cindy Crawford.

Summer Altice

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The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

Siri Hustvedt

MindBrainComplexHowManyThem

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Steve Martin

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I'm really influenced by '90s hip hop. A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul were my heroes growing up.

Mat Kearney

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In my field, you either want to be great or you shouldn't be doing it.

Rotimi

GreatDoingYouWantFieldEither

The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.

Jason Chaffetz

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Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

Joseph Wambaugh

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