Nick Hornby

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

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!

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

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

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Its no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldnt even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Screenwriting is about condensing.

Its brilliant being depressed you can behave as badly as you like.

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you dont need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Single mothers bright, attractive, available women, thousands of them all over London they were the best invention Will had ever heard of.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.