Best quotes by Nick Hornby on People
Checkout quotes by Nick Hornby on People
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‟ 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!
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‟ I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.
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‟ I like writing about popular culture. It helps to place people. I think you can be really, really accurate if you know enough about it, and place people precisely.
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‟ People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly what Elizabeth Bennett has to overcome, what she has to deal with.
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‟ Sometimes when people are attached to a project, they need persuading to stay attached, and then, in retrospect, they're not the right person.
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‟ If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction book written in 1964 because you're hearing how language was actually used and hearing what people's actual concerns were at the beginning of the 1960s.
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‟ In a way, novel writing is such a permanently student lifestyle. When it comes to movies, and you have to go to these meetings and try and impress people and get money out of them, I feel as though I'm playacting at being somebody who's grown up.
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‟ The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.
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