Nick Hornby Quotes

I love TV. I watch more TV than most people you know.

I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.

I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I spend a lot of time reading.

We don't feel duty-bound to get all the way through a TV program. If we're not enjoying it, we turn over. Movies, we tend to give more of the benefit of the doubt because they're only 90 minutes or two hours. But books, there is this thing of, 'It's a book. I've got to finish it.'

I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

I didn't find Saturday night television difficult.

I'm a big TV show guy.

I love podcasts, so I thought I'd try one.

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact they learn to love reading at home, and therefore it's really important that we as parents preserve the joy of reading by supporting them and reading things that speak to their hearts, books that they love.

I don't think TV interests me at all.

As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.

I don't watch too many films.

Reading 'The New Yorker' - I start on the last page and go backwards, reading all the cartoons. Then I read 'Shouts and Murmurs.' Then I read the reviews. Then I read the articles that immediately appeal to me.

I try to read 20 books a year.