Zitat des Tages von Nick Hornby:
I'd say I got into Marvin Gaye properly in college.
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!
I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once.
The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.
Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.
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.
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.
Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.
Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity.
I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.
It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.
I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.
It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding like me. All writers must experience that.
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.
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.
I only want to write books and movies about women.
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
I think I became less literary after I sold more!
I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.
If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.
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.
'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.
Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.
When you're adapting a novel, there are always scenes taken out of the book, and no matter which scenes they are, it's always someone's favorite. As a screenwriter, you realize, 'Well, it doesn't work if you include everyone's favorite scenes.'
When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'
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've never met anyone who is seriously bad.
In a way, novel writing is such a permanently student lifestyle. When it comes to movies, and you have to go to these meetings and try and impress people and get money out of them, I feel as though I'm playacting at being somebody who's grown up.
I used to go and see the Clash a fair bit. I did think they were dead cool, and very handsome.
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.
There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration.
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.
