Nick Hornby Quotes About Books

• Todos los libros que poseemos, tanto los leídos como los no leídos, son la máxima expresión de nosotros mismos que tenemos a nuestra disposición. ... Pero con cada año que pasa, y con cada compra caprichosa, nuestras bibliotecas son cada vez más capaces de articular quiénes somos, tanto si leemos los libros como si no.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Self, Expression

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

• I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Self, Expression

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

• 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

  Book, Important, Trying

• Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Faces

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

• Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.

  Nick Hornby

  Guerra, Libro, Lectura

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

• I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too.

  Nick Hornby

  Libro, Escribir, Querer

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

• Las secuelas rara vez son una buena idea y, en cualquier caso, el éxito del libro cambió en cierto modo mi relación con el club.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Ideas, Clubs

• Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Mean, Achieve

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Shakespeare Wrote for Money”, McSweeneys Books

• Siempre se me ha acusado de tomarme demasiado en serio las cosas que me gustan -el fútbol, por supuesto, pero también los libros y los discos-, y siento una especie de rabia cuando oigo un disco malo, o cuando alguien se muestra tibio con un libro que significa mucho para mí.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Book, Mean

• In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Cry, Partners

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

• That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Heart, Optimism

• ¿Y qué pasaría si nunca leyéramos a los clásicos? Me parece que llega un momento en la vida en que tienes que decidir si eres una persona de letras o simplemente alguien que ama los libros, y empiezo a ver que los amantes de los libros se divierten más.

  Nick Hornby

  Diversión, Libro, Letras

  "Cosas que he estado leyendo". www.believermag.com. Octubre de 2005.

• 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

  Inspiración, motivación, arte

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Say Anything, Knowing God

  "A Long Way Down (Movie Tie-In)". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

• I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I’ve understood them. They’re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash’s autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Book, Mean

  "High Fidelity". www.imdb.com. 2000.

• All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won’t remember it, and you’ll learn nothing from it, and you’ll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.

  Nick Hornby

  Hermano, Libro, Lectura

  Nick Hornby (2006). “Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt”, McSweeneys Books

• (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

  Art, Book, Home

• Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Reading, Journey

  Nick Hornby (2012). “More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself”, p.82, McSweeney's

• We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Remember, Sometimes

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

• No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be learned. It’s just that, every now and again, you can hit a patch of reading that makes you feel as if you’re pootling about. [...] But what can you do about it? We don’t choose to waste our reading time; it just happens. The books let us down.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Reading, Waste

  "Stuff I've been reading". www.believermag.com. July/August 2011.

• So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd rather do anything but attempt the next paragraph, or reread the last one for the tenth time.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Reading, Cat

  Nick Hornby (2006). “The complete polysyllabic spree”

• I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

  Nick Hornby

  Smart, Book, People

• I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces I've never heard of.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Adults, Criminals

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Shakespeare Wrote for Money”, McSweeneys Books

• Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say.

  Nick Hornby

  Libro, Lectura, Personas

  Nick Hornby (2012). “More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself”, p.27, McSweeney's

• Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

  Nick Hornby

  Lectura, Libro, Ideas

  "This much I know". Interview with Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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