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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Eastleigh Town
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It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.
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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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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
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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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She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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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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She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.
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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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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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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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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.
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She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.
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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
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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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Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
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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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Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
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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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I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.
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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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