“I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand ...” — Nick Hornby Quote

“I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth' or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn't get any of that.”

“The Internet's changed everything. There are no record stores to hang out in anymore.”

“The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.”

“Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.”

“I played soccer until I was like 10 or 11, maybe 12. I had fun with it, but it was a team sport, and I hated losing, and we kept losing, so I quit.”

“I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.”