Nick Hornby Quotes

Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded like a bad university essay.

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeMeBadWriteUselessStudying

I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.

Jo Brand

MeHusbandThoughtNeverBecause

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

John Doolittle

OrganizationRightStandardsOwnSet

You have so much fun playing games. We all love basketball, so we never want the season to end, 'cause then it's five months of sitting around and watching the playoffs.

Stephen Curry

LoveFunBasketballEndYouSitting

My uncle Randall always had a book in his hand. He read in the car, he read at restaurants, he read when you were talking to him. He read lots of different things, but mostly it was Louis L'Amour's westerns and contemporary thrillers.

Stephen Graham Jones

CarBookTalkingYouUncleHand

You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.

Simon Sinek

ThinkYouToo MuchKnowWhyNever

What we should all argue for is the use of freedom rather than having a monetary system with regulation domination that is run by a cartel and the special interests - that is the kind of system we have today.

Ron Paul

TodayFreedomKindRunSpecial

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.

Roy Lichtenstein

ThinkKnowBeingSomethingLike

Time is a finite resource.

Rumaan Alam

TimeResourceFinite

Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful.

Miguel Syjuco

TiredProblemImportantStorytelling

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Jonathan Sacks

AgeHistoryBestReligionSociety

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

Dinaw Mengestu

AmericanImmigrantWriterNeeds

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

Dhani Jones

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