Nick Hornby
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"Nick Hornby", in full "Nicholas Hornby", is an English novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels High Fidelity (novel)/High Fidelity and About a Boy (novel)/About a Boy. Hornby's work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2009.

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I still maintain that music is the best way of getting the self-expression job done.

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

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.

All I want to do is make sure that I continue to try to exploit the potential I have.

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.

I don't think that most songwriters can ever anticipate quite what their songs are going to mean to people.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.