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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Book
Right
Life
Stay
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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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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
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Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.
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The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today and I'll always remember it
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When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt there's pressure to keep the momentum up.
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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
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Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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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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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!
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She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy
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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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Work hard at . . . something.
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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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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.
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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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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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She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.
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