David Nicholls
David Nicholls
David Alan Nichollsis an English novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1966
reading cutting numbers
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.
believe fall snow
I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.
unhappiness easier jokes
Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
appreciation book thinking
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?
regret hate thinking
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.
thinking trying facts
…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.
morning night these-days
These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.
wall writing cells
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
thinking world language
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
years anecdotes
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
summer home kissing
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.
moving cynical touching
I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
laughter laughing feelings
He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.
differences important important-things
I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference