Quote

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

Nick Hornby

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nick Hornby
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 17
Essayist
Film Producer
Lyricist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Nicholas Peter John Hornby
Books
Personally
Dewey
Purpose
Arts
Organizing
Art
Pursuit
Lit
Home
Library
Section
Better
Putting
Trivial
Find
Works
Sections
Book
Fiction
Domestic
System
Purposes

More quotes by Nick Hornby

Image
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
Image
You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.
Nick Hornby
Image
I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.
Nick Hornby
Image
Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
Nick Hornby
Image
It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.
Nick Hornby
Image
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.
Nick Hornby
Image
What good were real feelings anyway?
Nick Hornby
Image
An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.
Nick Hornby
Image
What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.
Nick Hornby
Image
Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.
Nick Hornby
Image
That’s why he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all
Nick Hornby
Image
It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.
Nick Hornby
Image
When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.
Nick Hornby
Image
I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.
Nick Hornby
Image
Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to I Got Loaded, which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.
Nick Hornby
Image
I'd thought I'd live with my wife, but I couldn't find one.
Nick Hornby
Image
Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.
Nick Hornby
Image
One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.
Nick Hornby
Image
Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.
Nick Hornby
Image
...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.
Nick Hornby