55 ordspråk av Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
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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.
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So the domestic novel can accommodate, should accommodate, a lot of extremity.
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The degree of examination that goes on in film is very interesting for a writer, because there's not a line that goes unchallenged in a script.
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The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
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The process you have to go through to get a book published is quite difficult, because books are judged by essentially serious-minded people.
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There's a hundred million different ways of writing, and it takes you a long time to sort through that stuff. And I think it takes anyone a long time to find a voice.
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These things that I write about, not only have I experienced them but they are unavoidable. If you're any kind of human, you are going to have relationships.
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We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
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We don't have that in Britain.
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