{"author":"Nick Hornby","author_id":"Nick+Hornby","total_quotes":126,"quotes":[{"text":"No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be learned. It’s just that, every now and again, you hit a patch of reading that makes you feel as if you’re pootling about… But what can you do about it? We don’t choose to waste our reading time; it just happens. The books let us down.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["reading"],"id":2762,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"I've committed to nothing...And that's just suicide...By tiny, tiny increments.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["characterization","dark-humor","fiction","personal-insight","rob-gordon"],"id":4807,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["imagination","lovers"],"id":5494,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queue­jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["suicide"],"id":8041,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State Building or up a mountain or whatever? And there's always that bit when the baddie slips off and the hero tries to save him, but, like, the sleeve of this jacket tears off and goes over and you hear him all the way down. Aaaaaaaaagh. That's what I want to do.' 'You want to watch me plunge to my doom.' 'I'd like to know that I've made the effort. I want to show people the torn sleeve.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["action","effort","friendship","hornby"],"id":10026,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["dating","interests","relationships"],"id":12137,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the 'Arts and Lit non-fiction section)I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["games","home","libraries","organization"],"id":14900,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"What good were real feelings anyway?","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["about-a-boy","feelings","nick-hornby"],"id":20028,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["books","cataloging","libraries","organization"],"id":22902,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence. ","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["humour"],"id":29777,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":126,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}