David Nicholls
David Nicholls
David Alan Nichollsis an English novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1966
life taken way
He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
growing-up worry people
All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.
sex aunt cuddling
Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
joy courses
And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
jobs hate people
So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs
running walks
Dont run before you can walk
dawn
As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
war drinking sadness
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North in Tender in the Night, and they're drinking because of a deep, unquenchable sadness of the soul, or the terrible legacy of the First World War, whereas I just get drunk because I'm thirsty, and I like the taste of lager...
guarantees-that interesting skins
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.
thinking laughing wish
Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.
speech moments henry-v
She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.
writing made situation
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
believe sometimes wonder
Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.
new-day today
Today. This bright new day that awaits us