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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: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Eastleigh Town
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I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
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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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It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.
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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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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
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I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.
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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
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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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No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
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Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
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What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?
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Dont run before you can walk
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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.
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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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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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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
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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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