Writer Nick Hornby: "I get depressed when people use culture as a pacifier." | Louisiana Channel

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Only a writer/artist can make a life "unfulfilled" beautiful, and useful for the sake of everyone.

[@deelot1]

God is the Great Creator who does this first and foremost

[@osw330904]

I agree that ‘writers’ are gonna have to be all encompassing at their craft

[@latetodagame1892]

'The best ideas are stolen.' -Christoher Hitchens

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I'm a poet and I....

[@thomasthompson6378]

Nick Hornby is one of the finest writers now living amongst the rest of us. When I think that the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, instead of Hornby, it makes me a little sick.

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[@WillWright1]

Liked this interview but the Springsteen reference at the end threw me off. Excellent, personal and unique thoughts on writing.

[@thomasthompson6378]

I think he just meant to say that art is art, wherever you find it; and that, for him, Springsteen combines real talent with a kind of genius for knowing what will "work" in the process of creation.

[@Zepster77]

@@thomasthompson6378 yes. Some of Springsteen’s stuff seems so contrived though rather than inspired. He dumbed his music down for the sake of success

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Haha