David Nicholls
David Nicholls
David Alan Nichollsis an English novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1966
humor hands use
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
baby lonely sleep
There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.
expectations great-expectations kind
I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.
eight three four
It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.
kissing years sight
The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.
writing thinking hands
I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.
speed intimacy
…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…
sweden streets
I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
perfect wake-up
And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
silly writing fiction
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
familiarity
but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.
self one-day pleasure
The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.
flirting light behaviour
She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.
girl problem individualistic
The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.