David Nicholls Quotes - Page 7

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• 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.

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• He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.

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  Summer, Home, Kissing

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• He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?

  David Nicholls

  Fashion, Mean, Yale

  David Nicholls (2008). “Starter for Ten: A Novel”, p.69, Villard

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• Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses his lovely, glossy hair back, and she tosses her hair in return, and he tosses his, and she tosses hers, and it;s like some mating ritual on a wildlife program.

  David Nicholls

  Hair, Laughing, Lovely

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.363, Villard

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• 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

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• I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.

  David Nicholls

  Differences, Important, Important Things

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

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• Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

  David Nicholls

  Sorry, Love You, One Day

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• The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.

  David Nicholls

  Facts, Yeats, Wilde

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.233, Villard

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• David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.

  David Nicholls

  Mother, Eight, Years

  "Author Imagines 'One Day' For Connected People". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 19, 2010.

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• What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?

  David Nicholls

  Ideas, Two, People

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.127, Villard

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• 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

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• I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

  David Nicholls

  Emotional, Thinking, Stories

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• The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

  David Nicholls

  Wife, Degrees, Facts

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us: A Novel”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.

  David Nicholls

  Thinking, My Best Friend, Want

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.209, Hachette UK

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• It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.

  David Nicholls

  Teenage, Drama, Appetite

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• …and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

  David Nicholls

  Thinking, Trying, Facts

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• He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them all. 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? Eat a meal, go to bed, fall in love with me and I promise you years and years of top notch material like this?

  David Nicholls

  Falling In Love, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?

  David Nicholls

  Flower, Water, Why Not

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• So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.

  David Nicholls

  Happened

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.267, Hachette UK

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• …she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

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  Reading, Writing, Reading And Writing

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

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• Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.

  David Nicholls

  Missing, My Best Friend, Emma

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• ...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.

  David Nicholls

  Self, Lazy, Important

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• Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

  David Nicholls

  World, Sentimental, Dysentery

  David Nicholls (2011). “One Day”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, i mean endlessly, i've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?

  David Nicholls

  Nice, Smart, Believe

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• This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose if you phone first

  David Nicholls

  Mean, Phones, Competition

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