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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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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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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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I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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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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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
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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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She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.
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Be good. Do something good.
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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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She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
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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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You must do what you enjoy.
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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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And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
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Maybe we've grown out of each other.
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