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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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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
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Adaptation
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Cinema
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Originals
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Already
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
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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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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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Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
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I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.
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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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And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
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This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
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