Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
David Nicholls
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Begins
Hope
Today
Everything
Love
Starts
More quotes by David Nicholls
I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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 that he will plunge through. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.
David Nicholls
So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.
David Nicholls
I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.
David Nicholls
She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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.
David Nicholls
Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
David Nicholls
Maybe we've grown out of each other.
David Nicholls
Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
David Nicholls
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.
David Nicholls
I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?
David Nicholls