Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
David Nicholls
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Failure
Easier
Achieving
Achieve
Kick
Actually
Unhappiness
Make
Kicks
Think
Disappointed
Thinking
Joke
Jokes
More quotes by David Nicholls
But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!
David Nicholls
I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!
David Nicholls
And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
David Nicholls
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.
David Nicholls
but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
David Nicholls
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.
David Nicholls
We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.
David Nicholls
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.
David Nicholls
Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy
David Nicholls
As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.
David Nicholls