David Nicholls Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.

  David Nicholls

  Song, Falling In Love, Book

• Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to a decent society. Why d'you think books are the first things that the fascists burn?

  David Nicholls

  Appreciation, Book, Thinking

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.102, Villard

• Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

  David Nicholls

  Moving, Book, Knives

• I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

  David Nicholls

  Believe, Book, Reading

• For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

  David Nicholls

  Children, Book, Parent

• Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

  David Nicholls

  Book, Age

  "David Nicholls: Adapting Great Expectations for the screen". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2012.

• Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

  David Nicholls

  Book, Years, Giving

  "David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

• An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

  David Nicholls

  Book, Character, Ideas

  "David Nicholls: Adapting Great Expectations for the screen". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2012.

• When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.

  David Nicholls

  Book, Reading, Momentum

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