David Nicholls Quotes - Page 2

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• Today. This bright new day that awaits us

  David Nicholls

  New Day, Today

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse of pleasure and satisfaction and occasional irritation, and this seemed to be a happy exchange; if there had been moments in her life when she had been more elated, there had never been a time when things had been more constant.

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  Fun, Passion, Irritation

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• I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? You think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And it's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you;re not funny then you're not...anything

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  Running, Nice, Stupid

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• She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

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  Romantic Love, Love Is, Diners

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

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  Writing, People, Abstract

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• In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.

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  Thinking, Eight, Years

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• At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

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  Serious

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.

  David Nicholls

  Regret, Hate, Thinking

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

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  Real, Worry, Dating

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• Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

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  Anxiety

  "David Nicholls: why he made the headlines in 2010" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2010.

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• I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

  David Nicholls

  Taken, Hands, Phones

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• You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

  David Nicholls

  Thinking, World, Language

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• The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

  David Nicholls

  Self, One Day, Pleasure

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Sleepovers, Wasting Time

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• I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.

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  Writing, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

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  Holiday, Sea, Worry

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

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• 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.

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  Moving, Book, Knives

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• A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

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  Humor, Hands, Use

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

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  Weight, Littles, Kind

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• Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.

  David Nicholls

  Speed, Intimacy

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• Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

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  Growing Up, Thinking, Sensible

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• 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.

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  Book, Character, Ideas

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

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• Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

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  Skills, Ideas, Giving

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.83, Villard

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• I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

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  Lying, Adventure, Soul

  "One Day". Book by David Nicholls, www.abc.net.au. June 11, 2009.

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• These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.

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  Grief, Hands, Ice

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.365, Hachette UK

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