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.
sleep needs flow
I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.
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.
knows not-alone
We read to know we're not alone.
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.
dies ifs
If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong
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.