David Nicholls quotes

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them. (David Nicholls)
If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. View quote
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Envy was just the tax you paid on success. View quote
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I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world. View quote
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Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative. View quote
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Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen. View quote
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You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle. View quote
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I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous. View quote
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She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy. View quote
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Dont run before you can walk. View quote
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I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness. (David Nicholls)
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger he will plunge through. View quote
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Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today. View quote
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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened. View quote
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And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect. View quote
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You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you. View quote
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This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. View quote
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Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance. View quote
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I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof. View quote
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The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. View quote
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Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word. (David Nicholls)
My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck. View quote
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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it. View quote
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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella. View quote
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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death. View quote
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