“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress...”
"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
- Nick Hornby
Relationships
"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else."
- Nick Hornby
Inspiration
"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time."
- Nick Hornby
Inspiration
"Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time."
- Nick Hornby
Inspiration
"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
- Nick Hornby
Reflection
"It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Efficiency
"There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across."
- Rick Rubin
Efficiency
"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."
- Peter Drucker
Efficiency
"If you measure it, it will improve."
- Seth Godin
Efficiency
"Good customer service costs less than bad customer service."
- Sally Gronow
Efficiency