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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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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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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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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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As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.
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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.
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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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You must do what you enjoy.
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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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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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Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
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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 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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This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
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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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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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He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?
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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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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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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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