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Nick Hornby is the author of two books, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch. For more information about Nick, please check this site

Here are some quotes from High Fidelity:

  • and my friends don’t seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven’t lost. 
  • I have a terrible, chilling, bone-shaking experience: the most pathetic man in the world gives me a smile of recognition. The Most Pathetic Man In The World has huge horn-rimmed spectacles and buckteeth; he’s wearing a dirty fawn anorak and brown cord trousers which have been rubbed smooth at the knee; he, too, is being taken to see Howard’s End by his parents, despite the fact that he’s in his late twenties. And he gives me this terrible little smile because he has spotted a kindred spirit.

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