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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
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Anecdotes
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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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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.
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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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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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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
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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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…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.
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The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.
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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.
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Be good. Do something good.
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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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I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
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[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
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And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
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An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.
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Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.
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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!
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