Zitate von Nick Hornby

„Vorweg ein paar grundsätzliche Regeln:

1) Ich möchte keine Klagen hören, ich würde zu viel Geld für Bücher ausgeben, die ich dann doch nicht lese. Das weiß ich selbst. Ich habe stets die Absicht, sie mehr oder weniger alle zu lesen. Meine Absichten sind gut. Und schließlich ist es ja mein Geld. Ich wette, bei Ihnen ist es ähnlich.“

—  Nick Hornby

„Man kann sich über jeden lustig machen, der unglücklich ist, man muss nur grausam genug sein.“

—  Nick Hornby, buch A Long Way Down

A Long Way Down, Übersetzer: Clara Drechsler, Harals Hellmann, München 2006, ISBN 978-3-426-61536-2

„Wir alle wenden so viel Zeit dafür auf, nicht zu sagen, was wir wollen, weil wir wissen, dass wir es nicht kriegen können. Und weil es unhöflich wäre, illoyal, kindisch oder banal.“

—  Nick Hornby, buch A Long Way Down

A Long Way Down, Übersetzer: Clara Drechsler, Harals Hellmann, München 2006, ISBN 978-3-426-61536-2

„You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.“

—  Nick Hornby, buch A Long Way Down

Quelle: A Long Way Down

„It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.“

—  Nick Hornby, buch High Fidelity

Quelle: High Fidelity

„You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in…“

—  Nick Hornby, buch How to Be Good

Quelle: How to Be Good

„It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.“

—  Nick Hornby

„What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?“

—  Nick Hornby, buch High Fidelity

Quelle: High Fidelity

„I love the relationship that anyone has with music… because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out…. It's the best part of us probably…“

—  Nick Hornby, buch Songbook

Quelle: Songbook

„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, buch A Long Way Down

Quelle: A Long Way Down

„Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.“

—  Nick Hornby, buch Songbook

Quelle: Songbook

„It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.“

—  Nick Hornby, buch High Fidelity

Quelle: High Fidelity

„Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.“

—  Nick Hornby, buch A Long Way Down

Quelle: A Long Way Down

„Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.“

—  Nick Hornby, buch High Fidelity

Quelle: High Fidelity

„I've committed to nothing… and that's just suicide… by tiny, tiny increments.“

—  Nick Hornby, buch High Fidelity

Quelle: High Fidelity

„I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.“

—  Nick Hornby, buch High Fidelity

Quelle: High Fidelity

„It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.“

—  Nick Hornby, buch How to Be Good

Variante: The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Quelle: How to Be Good

„If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.“

—  Nick Hornby, buch High Fidelity

Quelle: High Fidelity

„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, buch A Long Way Down

Quelle: A Long Way Down