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Dont run before you can walk

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Running
Dont
Walk
Walks

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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.
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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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I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
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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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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
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If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.
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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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Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance
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...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
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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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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.
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The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.
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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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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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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
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