Famous Nick Hornby Quotes

  • It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like. – Nick Hornby

    It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.– Nick Hornby

  • She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything – Nick Hornby

    She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything– Nick Hornby

  • Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality. – Nick Hornby

    Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.– Nick Hornby

  • I’ve committed to nothing…and that’s just suicide…by tiny, tiny increments. – Nick Hornby

    I’ve committed to nothing…and that’s just suicide…by tiny, tiny increments.– Nick Hornby

  • All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I’m beginning to see why people don’t do it more often. – Nick Hornby

    All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I’m beginning to see why people don’t do it more often.– Nick Hornby

  • To me, making a tape is like writing a letter -“ there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one. – Nick Hornby

    To me, making a tape is like writing a letter -“ there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.– Nick Hornby

  • Women who disapprove of men – and there’s plenty to disapprove of – should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel. – Nick Hornby

    Women who disapprove of men – and there’s plenty to disapprove of – should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.– Nick Hornby

  • There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. – Nick Hornby

    There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.– Nick Hornby

  • I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey. – Nick Hornby

    I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.– Nick Hornby

  • You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby

    You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God.– Nick Hornby