David Nicholls
David Nicholls
David Alan Nichollsis an English novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1966
painfully time
I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
men limits reaching
She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
mother years names
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.
sex
But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!
fighting battle fighting-battles
Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.
just-love-me
Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
thinking my-best-friend want
I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.
fun night imagine
Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN
mean differences important
I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,’ she siad. ‘You know, actually change something.’ ‘What, like “change the world”, you mean?’ ‘Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.
ambition welcome graveyard
Welcome to the graveyard of ambition
writing get-better dialogue
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.
nice mean being-nice
Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.
unhappiness easier jokes
Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
tape letters too-much
Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.