Quote

But the internet had changed everything: nobody was forgotten anymore.

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
Changed
Everything
Anymore
Forgotten
Internet
Nobody

More quotes by Nick Hornby

Image
This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.
Nick Hornby
Image
It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.
Nick Hornby
Image
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
Image
(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
Image
But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.
Nick Hornby
Image
And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.
Nick Hornby
Image
The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved
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
Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.
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
One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.
Nick Hornby
Image
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
Nick Hornby
Image
Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.
Nick Hornby
Image
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
Nick Hornby
Image
Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.
Nick Hornby
Image
You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.
Nick Hornby
Image
…I've had a bad week. What's happened? Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.
Nick Hornby
Image
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
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
That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.
Nick Hornby