David Nicholls Inspirational Quotes (103)

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

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.

She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy

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.