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Top 140 Nick Hornby Quotes (2025 Update)
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Nick Hornby Quote: “You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “Where’s the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn’t seem like superficial to me. These aren’t flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “I’m still not a very good white wine, but I’m drinkable – you could put me in a punch, anyway.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “It’s no wonder we’re all such a mess, is it? We’re like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “I hate time. It never does what you want it to.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “I don’t even feel as if I’m the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I’m the center of anyone else’s?”
Nick Hornby Quote: “To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It’s not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There’s a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “That was his mother. When she wasn’t crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn’t stale, that hasn’t been breathed by my family a thousand times already.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “I don’t believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “So it’s not about what you do. It can’t be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that’s where I get eaten up.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “It takes a child to say the unsayable.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “We can’t be as good as we’d want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?”
Nick Hornby Quote: “The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I’m not fluent in it – I like too many things, and I’m not envious of enough people – I know enough to get by.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they’ve started to give me a little pang or something – not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: “I’m sorry, I’ve let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “But the internet had changed everything: nobody was forgotten anymore.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “I don’t think you can call it stalking when it’s just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “It’s music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you’re being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you’re carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “Human beings are millions of things in one day.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you’re a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I’m beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “It’s just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn’t know that we wanted to know – we’re just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “We get together with people because they’re the same or because they’re different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “Have you got any soul?” a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I’ve got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can’t seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn’t be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.”
Nick Hornby Quote: “One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.”
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