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This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Everything
Love
Starts
Begins
Hope
Today

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Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.
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Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you
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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.
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She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.
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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
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Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you
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I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.
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When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt there's pressure to keep the momentum up.
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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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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've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?
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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.
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I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.
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I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
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You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
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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.
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She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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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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