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Today. This bright new day that awaits us

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
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Today

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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.
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I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.
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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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This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
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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?
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Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
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Maybe we've grown out of each other.
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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!
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Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
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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.
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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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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.
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I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
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You must do what you enjoy.
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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.
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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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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
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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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