Nick Hornby
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 26: Author Nick Hornby, founder and President of Sundance Institute Robert Redford and musician/producer T-Bone Burnett speak onstage at 'An Evening With Robert Redford And T Bone Burnett' During Sundance London at Indigo at O2 Arena on April 26, 2012 in London, England.
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Nicholls offers sharp dialogue and wry insight that sounds like Nick Hornby at his best.
A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad...the best British social novel since Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up!...Nicholls's witty prose has a transparency that brings Nick Hornby to mind: it melts as you read it so that you don't notice all the hard work that it's doing.
I'd read the Nick Hornby novel and thought there was no way it would make a film, especially as they now wanted to do it in Chicago ... But John had really worked out how to get into the book's interior monologues and it was all rather brilliant. As soon as we began work, I realised how much he'd grown up in the 10 years since The Grifters and was able to take responsibility for that film.More quotes »
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