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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 A Long Way Down
Tags: starting-over, problems, life, hard

Other Quotes by "Nick Hornby"

I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie's great young adult novel 'The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian.' I told my son it was highly inappropriate for him and one of the most banned books in America. That got his attention, and he raced through it.
— Nick Hornby
Tags: reading, son, great, success
I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.
— Nick Hornby
Tags: enough, mind, heart, love
I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as male ones. The novels I read as a young man were all by women writers, and when I started writing, I wanted to set my books inside the home.
— Nick Hornby
Tags: home, man, music, women
I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.
— Nick Hornby
Tags: where, some, writing, feel
I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.
— Nick Hornby
Tags: gloomy, those, just, people
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