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. Nick Hornby Read Quote
I used to go and see the Clash a fair bit. I did think they were dead cool, and very handsome. Nick Hornby Read Quote
I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday – I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn’t. Nick Hornby Read Quote
All the Oscars stuff for ‘An Education’ was incredibly exciting, especially because it was such an underdog project – no one would give us the money for it, and we all nearly gave up because it wasn’t getting anywhere, then suddenly a breakthrough and this really lovely film, which then took on a life of its own. Nick Hornby Read Quote
It takes big business a couple of decades to work out how best to exploit a cultural form; once that has happened, ‘that high-low fork in the road’ is unavoidable, and the middle way begins to look impossibly daunting. Nick Hornby Read Quote
