David Nicholls
David Nicholls
David Alan Nichollsis an English novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1966
stupid caring thinking
And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.
thinking people matter
I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.
enjoy
You must do what you enjoy.
growing-up thinking sensible
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
pride two-sides issues
She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.
writing thinking somewhere-else
I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
morning lying mean
As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.
book years giving
Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.
dirty thinking hollywood-films
Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
years actors twenties
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.
moving book knives
Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.
moving cynical touching
I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
husband cake faces
She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.
long remember reader
I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.