David Nicholls
David Nicholls
David Alan Nichollsis an English novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1966
comforting bad-food
…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
fall soul emma
…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.
writing sleepovers wasting-time
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.
remember-you remembers-you remember
We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.
years anecdotes
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
rose empty succession
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.
thinking hands photograph
[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.
sorry love-you one-day
Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
laughter laughing feelings
He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.
love hope today
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
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
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.
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.
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 . . . .