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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Hard
Work
Something

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When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.
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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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She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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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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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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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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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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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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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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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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Maybe we've grown out of each other.
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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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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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Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance
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Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.
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I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
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