Nick Hornby Quotes

For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

Whilst I love still hiding... games and puzzles to play, I'm not as imprisoned by that need to fill every corner with detail.

Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

True play is creativity.

Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room.

Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result.

I think that pirates represent every person's ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go on an adventure, and maybe to see things and do things they've never done before or even dreamed of doing.