Nick Hornby Quotes

The only thing you have to know are your words.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

Speech is the small change of silence.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

Words are powerful.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Thought is made in the mouth.

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.