William Nicholson
William Nicholson
William Benedict Nicholson, OBE, FRSLis a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist who has been nominated twice for an Oscar...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth12 January 1948
reading book knows
We read to know that we are not alone.
teacher criminal-mind used-in-criminal-minds
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.
hero novel deserve
Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.
writing years form
When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
writing knows not-alone
We write to know we are not alone
suffering plastic wells
A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
writing dozen great-american
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
compassion class merit
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
past eight way
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.
drinking wine thinking
The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.
world littles
I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.
slave
We are the slaves of slaves
lonely fall dark
All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.
self enemy needs
Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.