The Complete Polysyllabic Spree Quotes

“I don't normally read reviews of children's books, mostly because I can't be bothered, and because kids - my kids, anyway - are not interested in what the Guardian thinks they might enjoy. One of my two-year-old's favourite pieces of night-time reading, for example, is the promotional flyer advertising the Incredibles that I was sent, a flyer outlining some of the marketing plans for the film. If you end up having to read that out loud every night, you soon give up on the idea of seeking out improving literature sanctioned by the liberal broadsheets.”
― Nick Hornby, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree

“When you're as ill-read as I am, routinely ignoring the literature of the entire non-English-speaking world seems like a minor infraction.”
― Nick Hornby, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree

“D'un tratto ho avuto una piccola epifania: tutti i libri che possediamo, letti e non, sono l'espressione più piena che abbiamo a disposizione della nostra personalità ... a ogni anno che passa, e a ogni acquisto capriccioso, le nostre biblioteche diventano sempre più capaci di descriverci, che i libri li leggiamo oppure no”
― Nick Hornby, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree