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" I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth' or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn't get any of that. "

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" Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it. "

Nick Hornby

Quality

Health

Youth

" I didn't really want to write about music very much in 'High Fidelity.' I wanted to write about the relationship stuff, and the music stuff is kind of a bit of fun on top and something to frame it with. "

" I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope. "

" 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. "

" I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't. "

Nick Hornby

Father

History

" I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way. "

" It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years. "

Nick Hornby

Write

Three

" When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun. "

" You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that some people respond to. "

" I only read the very best music books. Donald Fagan's memoir 'Eminent Hipsters' is great. Bob Dylan's memoir 'Chronicles' and Patty Smith's 'Just Kids' are both incredible. "

" Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song. "

" If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job. "

" I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious. "

" A lot of what 'Funny Girl' is about, for me, is the experience feeling very happy doing a certain thing with a certain group of people. That partly came about because of having really positive experiences writing movies. "

" Dylan's 'Chronicles' is easily the best rock n' roll memoir ever written, as far as I'm concerned. There aren't many stories in there, but if you want to know where an artist came from and why he thinks the way he does, then that's the one. "

" I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me, and a book doing well is important because it buys you another one. Not because of the money but if you keep doing interesting work, work that people like, they will want you to do more, and offers that are interesting come in. "

Nick Hornby

Money

Book

" The writing in those HBO dramas, like 'The Wire,' is as good as anything I've seen. "

" Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity. "

" I miss independent record stores very much. "

" The Internet's changed everything. There are no record stores to hang out in anymore. "

" Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person. "

" I would like to have a go at TV. I think, especially when you have kids, that you spend a lot of time watching telly, and you think, 'How come I'm not doing that?' "

Nick Hornby

Time

Doing

" 'An Education' was a complicated piece of work because it came from a tiny essay, so it took me a while to find the story I wanted to tell and the characters I wanted to tell it about. That really only emerged after four or five drafts. "

Nick Hornby

Find

Education

" I've never met anyone who is seriously bad. "

" I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. "

Nick Hornby

Talking

People

" I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once. "

" The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading. "

" If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction book written in 1964 because you're hearing how language was actually used and hearing what people's actual concerns were at the beginning of the 1960s. "

" I've always been able to enjoy aspects of my life. "

" With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made. "

Nick Hornby

Long

Made