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
suffering plastic wells
A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
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.
slave
We are the slaves of slaves