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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?

David Nicholls

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Eastleigh Town
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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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All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.
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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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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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The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
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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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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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Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
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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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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
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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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She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
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He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.
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