David Nicholls
David Nicholls
David Alan Nichollsis an English novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1966
sorry love-you one-day
Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
facts yeats wilde
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.
ideas two people
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?
comforting bad-food
…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
somewhere-else want moments
I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
writing sleepovers wasting-time
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.
effort energy decent
Being a decent human being will require effort and energy…
fall soul emma
…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.
better-person raises persons
He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?
reading writing reading-and-writing
…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.
speed intimacy
…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…
writing thinking hands
I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.
anxiety
Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
able should wells
If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?