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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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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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From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .
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This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
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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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This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!
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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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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.
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An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.
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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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A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.
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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
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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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Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today and I'll always remember it
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She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.
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