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" 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. "

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" 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 couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record. "

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

" It takes big business a couple of decades to work out how best to exploit a cultural form; once that has happened, 'that high-low fork in the road' is unavoidable, and the middle way begins to look impossibly daunting. "

" I miss independent record stores very much. "

" One of the depressing things one realizes as one gets older is how much of one's tastes and attitudes are simply products of economic circumstance at the time. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life? "

" I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal. "

" 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 like writing about popular culture. It helps to place people. I think you can be really, really accurate if you know enough about it, and place people precisely. "

" We don't feel duty-bound to get all the way through a TV program. If we're not enjoying it, we turn over. Movies, we tend to give more of the benefit of the doubt because they're only 90 minutes or two hours. But books, there is this thing of, 'It's a book. I've got to finish it.' "

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

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

" I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 used to go and see the Clash a fair bit. I did think they were dead cool, and very handsome. "

" Lots of times when I'm offered things, I can't see how a story gets filmed. Either it's too internal or it doesn't have a strong spine. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

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