Nick Hornby quote: "I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"

I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a little bit like refusing ...
NICK HORNBY

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree viole...
NICK HORNBY

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that...
NICK HORNBY

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to wher...
NICK HORNBY

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
NICK HORNBY

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our dispos...
NICK HORNBY

I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.
NICK HORNBY

Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off ag...
NICK HORNBY

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our o...
NICK HORNBY

Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me...
NICK HORNBY

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be...
NICK HORNBY

People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that's what you ...
NICK HORNBY

I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's noth...
NICK HORNBY

Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world...
NICK HORNBY

sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you...
NICK HORNBY

I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even...
NICK HORNBY

I didn't mind High Fidelity being set in Chicago at all.
NICK HORNBY

We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it ...
NICK HORNBY

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
NICK HORNBY

She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what on...
NICK HORNBY

We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all ...
NICK HORNBY

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something bur...
NICK HORNBY

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.
NICK HORNBY

But sometimes, very occasionally, songs and books and films and pictures express who you are perfect...
NICK HORNBY

Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as ...
NICK HORNBY

Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at tw...
NICK HORNBY

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longe...
NICK HORNBY

Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic "scientists," now claim...
NICK HORNBY

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, ...
NICK HORNBY

I don't know you. The only thing I know about you is, you're reading this. I don't know if your happ...
NICK HORNBY

Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I ...
NICK HORNBY

Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.
NICK HORNBY

I have a really low boredom threshold.
NICK HORNBY

Like most depressions that plague people who have been more fortunate than most, I was ashamed of mi...
NICK HORNBY

Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
NICK HORNBY

For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes...
NICK HORNBY

A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what y...
NICK HORNBY

There's a hundred million different ways of writing, and it takes you a long time to sort through th...
NICK HORNBY

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
NICK HORNBY

I still maintain that music is the best way of getting the self-expression job done.
NICK HORNBY

I don't think that most songwriters can ever anticipate quite what their songs are going to mean to ...
NICK HORNBY

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's l...
NICK HORNBY

Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days...
NICK HORNBY

Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was aco...
NICK HORNBY

I reckon 75% at least of a book has to be omitted from the screen version, and there's no point in a...
NICK HORNBY

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
NICK HORNBY

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, ...
NICK HORNBY

One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.
NICK HORNBY

Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher e...
NICK HORNBY

I am 45, and I am not ready for carpet slippers and 10:30 bedtimes, but I am middle-aged.
NICK HORNBY

Maybe if I separate the coincidences out, push them further apart, you might believe them more. One ...
NICK HORNBY

Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize...
NICK HORNBY

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction sec...
NICK HORNBY

[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a...
NICK HORNBY

This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you we...
NICK HORNBY

And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, ...
NICK HORNBY

The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and...
NICK HORNBY

There were only seven years between the first and last Beatles albums. That's nothing, seven years, ...
NICK HORNBY

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badne...
NICK HORNBY

Fever Pitch was obviously and entirely autobiographical.
NICK HORNBY

All I want to do is make sure that I continue to try to exploit the potential I have.
NICK HORNBY

La música sentimental tiene la especial cualidad de llevarte hacia atrás en el tiempo a la vez que...
NICK HORNBY

The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I...
NICK HORNBY

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a reco...
NICK HORNBY

Det var nästan som att upptäcka en författare man inte läst, fast man stöter i och för sig hel...
NICK HORNBY

But there was an important and essential truth contained in the idea, and the truth was that these t...
NICK HORNBY

Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unles...
NICK HORNBY

I'm all for peace and harmony between the sexes.
NICK HORNBY

He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.
NICK HORNBY

When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.
NICK HORNBY

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea a...
NICK HORNBY

...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack...
NICK HORNBY

I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn'...
NICK HORNBY

Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, th...
NICK HORNBY

I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
NICK HORNBY

He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.
NICK HORNBY

Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which th...
NICK HORNBY

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would e...
NICK HORNBY

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then...
NICK HORNBY

I remembered what it is I like about sex: what I like about sex is that I can lose myself in it enti...
NICK HORNBY

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 t...
NICK HORNBY

One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be a...
NICK HORNBY

It would be nice to think that as I've got older times have changed, relationships have become more ...
NICK HORNBY

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people...
NICK HORNBY

(About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Sure...
NICK HORNBY

What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching vio...
NICK HORNBY

Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is ...
NICK HORNBY

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to h...
NICK HORNBY

It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trap...
NICK HORNBY

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.
NICK HORNBY

I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the ki...
NICK HORNBY

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are...
NICK HORNBY

I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermissi...
NICK HORNBY

I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you an...
NICK HORNBY

…I've had a bad week."
What's happened?"
Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my h...
NICK HORNBY

If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.
NICK HORNBY

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
NICK HORNBY

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you...
NICK HORNBY

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.
NICK HORNBY

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or w...
NICK HORNBY

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyon...
NICK HORNBY

[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to s...
NICK HORNBY

As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of peopl...
NICK HORNBY

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need...
NICK HORNBY

We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com...
NICK HORNBY

I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someon...
NICK HORNBY

You’re seeing someone else, aren’t you?"
Seeing someone else? How on earth could that expl...
NICK HORNBY

You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact abo...
NICK HORNBY

Kids must spend half their lives throwing things at the ducks in Regent's Park. How come he managed ...
NICK HORNBY

Noi che viviamo in questo quartiere e con questo reddito crediamo molto al potere delle parole: legg...
NICK HORNBY

bu kitap minimalist bir ressamla ilgili ve konu minimalist sanat olduğu zaman fark ettim ki ben agn...
NICK HORNBY

İki haftamı ülkenizi dolaşarak geçirdim -ülkeniz, çılgın zamanlar mıntıkası ve televizyo...
NICK HORNBY

(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens)

In the ...
NICK HORNBY

Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy mino...
NICK HORNBY

I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of ...
NICK HORNBY

The difference between sex with David and sex with Stephen is like the difference between science an...
NICK HORNBY

Human beings are millions of things in one day.
NICK HORNBY

Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been u...
NICK HORNBY

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This ...
NICK HORNBY

Of course, I have no idea what you know and don't know. But I have managed to introduce these songs ...
NICK HORNBY

In other words, it's too tough to be a musician at the moment.
NICK HORNBY

You're Beautiful. He's very accurate.
MIKE HORNBY

Because if we were all the same, then we would all share the same weaknesses.
NICK

Being scared is simply fear of incompetence.
NICK

One, two, three, Im gon be crazy and free.
NICK

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.
NICK CANNON

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form o...
NICK CANNON

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them be...
NICK CANNON

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of eve...
NICK CANNON

Real men change diapers!
NICK CANNON

Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say ...
NICK CANNON

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in ...
NICK CANNON

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.
NICK CANNON

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.
NICK CANNON

Hunger is a deep concern of mine, and I feel that no one should go without food in this world as lon...
NICK CANNON

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dream...
NICK CANNON

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.
NICK CANNON

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.
NICK CANNON

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to ...
NICK CANNON

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the...
NICK CANNON

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of...
NICK CANNON

I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same ...
NICK CANNON

Mariah is a beautiful and talented person, and I've had a crush on her for as long as I can reme...
NICK CANNON

I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me.
NICK CANNON

People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm prob...
NICK CANNON

The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's differ...
NICK JONAS

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing ...
NICK NOLTE

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Eu...
NICK CLEGG

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspec...
NICK CLEGG

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.
NICK MASON

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of the...
NICK DAVIES

To me, a forever love is a bond that can't be broken.
NICK CANNON

I've just been away for a week, and I dropped my BlackBerry in the sea while I was messing aroun...
NICK CLEGG

In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I r...
NICK KROLL

I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of ...
NICK JONAS

I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at th...
NICK CLEGG

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
NICK CARTER

Fantasy football has changed how I watch football because now every game is interesting start to fin...
NICK KROLL

Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning.
NICK WOODMAN

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on...
NICK CLEGG

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
NICK RICHARDSON

People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and g...
NICK JONAS

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get...
NICK CLEGG

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
NICK HANAUER

I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun....
NICK ROBINSON

Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel ove...
NICK SAGAN

I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bit...
NICK HARKAWAY

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.
NICK FALDO

The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special o...
NICK TURSE

At training, I consider myself a bit of a morale booster. I take a pack of lollies just to boost the...
NICK CUMMINS

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this en...
NICK HARKAWAY

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.
NICK HERTL

You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at th...
NICK OFFERMAN

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
NICK GORSKI

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be &...
NICK MORAN

I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it...
NICK KROLL

Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way...
NICK HARKAWAY

So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The com...
NICK BILTON

Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from be...
NICK TROUT

It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close...
NICK TROUT

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what ...
NICK HARKAWAY

As I live life, I believe that the highest value I, and anyone who is ready, able and willing, is to...
NICK CATRICALA

The word is control. That's my ultimate -- to have control.
NICK FALDO

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.
NICK NUESSLE

With rivers as with good friends, you always feel better for a few hours in their presence; you alwa...
NICK LYONS

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.
NICK NOLTE

Magic isn't done; it's only just begun!
NICK NEWBERRY

If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's...
NICK DIPAOLO

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
NICK DIAMOS

Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ...
NICK HARKAWAY

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without a...
NICK HARKAWAY

Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to d...
NICK WOODMAN

We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've ...
NICK ROBINSON

I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and ...
NICK SWARDSON

I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have ...
NICK WOODMAN

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people woul...
NICK HARKAWAY

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was re...
NICK HARKAWAY

Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite ...
NICK CLOONEY

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing...
NICK CLOONEY

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be pas...
NICK BOSTROM

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

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I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

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