Nick Hornby Quotes

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.

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkHard WorkGreatMeWriting

I do sing ballads, but I'm not a balladeer. I'm not the next Celine Dion.

Jessica Sanchez

NextSingBallads

I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself.

Andy Behrman

MyselfPaintingNameSamePaintOwn

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

Robert Jay Lifton

WorkMedicalSchoolCalendarThree

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

Matt Ridley

MeDeepThoughtJournalismInch

I didn't do the 'Home And Away' thing.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

HomeAwayThing

Restaurants should be forced to recycle their leftovers for animal consumption - and should create fewer leftovers in the first place.

Stephen Hough

AnimalPlaceCreateFirstLeftovers

My whole family is really tight-knit. We're a really good team.

Logan Henderson

FamilyGoodTeamWholeReally

I'm not worried about sacks in the preseason.

Jason Pierre-Paul

AboutWorried

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.

Josephine Baker

GirlSadHatePeopleMeRemember

There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids.

Dee Rees

ChangeIdeasYouConnectedAncestors

I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

Conrad Black

PerceptionMy OwnAlwaysCredibility

I'm interested in movement, and I'm interested in money, and I'm interested in the movement of money.

Conor McGregor

MoneyMovementInterested

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