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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

David Nicholls

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Compulsive
Reader
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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.
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…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.
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Work hard at . . . something.
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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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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy
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She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.
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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
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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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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.
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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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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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I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
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I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.
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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
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Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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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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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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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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