David Nicholls
David Nicholls
David Alan Nichollsis an English novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1966
thinking world language
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
years anecdotes
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
summer home kissing
He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.
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.
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.
differences important important-things
I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference
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.
facts yeats wilde
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.
ideas two people
What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?
comforting bad-food
…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
somewhere-else want moments
I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
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.
effort energy decent
Being a decent human being will require effort and energy…
fall soul emma
…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.