David Nicholls
David Nicholls
David Alan Nichollsis an English novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1966
lying adventure soul
I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!
success envy taxes
Envy was just the tax you paid on success.
differences world courageous
Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you
grief hands ice
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. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.
notebook coffee believe
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.
people
Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.
views desire useless
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 . . . .
moving heart ideas
I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in my life have wondered if I'm a Goth, a homosexul, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic depressive, whether I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, most regretfully, come to the conclusion that I'm none of the above. The fact is I'm actually not ANYTHING.
friendship clothes no-friends
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
writing people abstract
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.
heartache today tomorrow
Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it
new-years-resolution one-day principles
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
thinking years eight
In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.
love hope today
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.