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" I spent as much time watching telly and films when I was a kid as I did lying around reading books. I think it's crazy that writers are only allowed to say that certain books have influenced them. "

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" The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes. "

Nick Hornby

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Purpose

Sometimes

" Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is. "

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

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

" 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

Writing

Work

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

" Why are we scared of a '50s weepie? Why are we scared of a movie that pulls you in and punches you in the stomach? "

" I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book. I don't want to go back over things. I don't want to adapt my own books for the screen. That's something that's important to me, the keeping it fresh. "

" Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty. "

" 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. "

" I miss independent record stores very much. "

" The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and to include as many different people and places and times as you want, working with pretty much only one person, the editor, whose job it is to get it in good shape for publication. "

" Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was a different world. I never wanted to be in that world. I was much happier with my mates at home. "

" I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance. "

" 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. "

" Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. "

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

" With 'Brooklyn,' I knew the story I wanted to tell, and I just had a very strong sense that if I turned the volume up a little bit, it could be something really special. "

" 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 quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a seriousness of purpose and a seriousness of language. "

" I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes. "

" All the Oscars stuff for 'An Education' was incredibly exciting, especially because it was such an underdog project - no one would give us the money for it, and we all nearly gave up because it wasn't getting anywhere, then suddenly a breakthrough and this really lovely film, which then took on a life of its own. "

" The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir. "

" If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it. "

" '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

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

" It seems to me quite often that the journeys of young women are more moving because they are hemmed in more, and dramatically it's more interesting to think about and write about people whose lives are circumscribed in some way. "

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

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

" I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't want to hang out with me if I stopped. "

Nick Hornby

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Out