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Nick Hornby
 
Date of birth: 17 April 1957
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: England
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" All I want to do is make sure that I continue to try to exploit the potential I have. "

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" And we hardly need ever go to the stadium to watch every game live, because they're all on TV. "

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" Books are long. Even mine. You don't want to feel bad about them as you're writing them. "

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" But Arsenal fans are probably in two minds about it all, because the last decade has been the best of our lifetimes. We've seen fantastic football, and we've seen our team win a lot of trophies. "

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" But I reserve the right to write the kinds of books I feel like writing. "

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" But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week. "

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" English authors are very content to write for a very small audience, and I think that shows. "

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" Even at the beginning of the 90s people in England stood on the terraces to watch British players who would almost certainly need a job of some kind when they retired. "

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

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" Fever Pitch was obviously and entirely autobiographical. "

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" Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time. "

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" I came away with the idea that I'd like to write books the way people write screenplays. I think I'm not going to let another line go through unexamined. "

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" I could, I think, write a literary novel, but I have no desire to - even my bleakest book has some jokes in it, and I'd feel nervous writing a book with no jokes. "

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" I didn't mind High Fidelity being set in Chicago at all. "

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" I do like to read, but, you know, it's hard, and I do like watching telly, and I do like sport, and reading has to fight for its place within that. "

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