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Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

David Nicholls

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Letters
Compilation
Emotion
Tapes
Energy
Vehicles
Much
Vehicle
Really
Tape
Time
Clearly
Like
Emotions
Putting
Unexpressed

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I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
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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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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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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
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Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
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You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
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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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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 of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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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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No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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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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I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
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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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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.
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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
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