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

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Never
Silly
University
Fiction
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Used
Littles
Little
Sketches
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Monologues

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