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" 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. "

Nick Hornby

Work

Fun

People

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Talking

People

" I think it's weird when you become rich at 40. "

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

" I miss independent record stores very much. "

" 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. "

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

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

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Long

Made

" 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. "

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

" However varied you try to make your work, you still bump up against the end of you. You keep knocking into a wall, and the wall is your own skull. But when you adapt somebody's work, it's like a door into somewhere else. It feels like a holiday from myself. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 think I became less literary after I sold more! "

Nick Hornby

Literary

I Think

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

" 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. "

" I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really clever and moving and complicated, but everybody understands the complication. "

" People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly what Elizabeth Bennett has to overcome, what she has to deal with. "

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

" At a crude estimate, I must have played 'Thunder Road' 1,500 times. "

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

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

" I only want to write books and movies about women. "

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

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

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

" 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? "