David Nicholls quotes - page 3

I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right. (David Nicholls)

Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.

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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

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There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.

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This is me.'" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I'll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it's not a competition. You don't lose if you phone first.

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As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

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I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

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When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.

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I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

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David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.

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There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters. (David Nicholls)

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

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I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

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This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

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So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs.

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As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.

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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

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These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

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Being a decent human being will require effort and energy. (David Nicholls)

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

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And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

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For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

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What must that be like? To be admired before you've even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you're like?

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