You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote. — David Nicholls Anecdote Copy Share Image
“It wasn't much of a plan, and already there had been mistakes.” — David Nicholls Failure Copy Share Image
Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Às vezes era capaz de me fazer vomitar a mim próprio, a sério que sim.” — David Nicholls Amor Copy Share Image
Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for. — David Nicholls Hope Copy Share Image
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction. — David Nicholls Fiction Copy Share Image
Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim… — David Nicholls Marriage Copy Share Image
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken… — David Nicholls Books Copy Share Image
I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately ,experience new things, love and be loved.” — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and… — David Nicholls Cities Copy Share Image
He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool… — David Nicholls Life Copy Share Image
Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be… — David Nicholls Change the world Copy Share Image
Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill… — David Nicholls Debate Copy Share Image
She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of… — David Nicholls Actor Copy Share Image
As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Until now travel had always been a fraught affair. Each year until she was sixteen, it had been two weeks fighting with… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and… — David Nicholls Being nice Copy Share Image
“They ended up in a amusement arcade on Old Compton Street, where Nora insisted Stephen join her on one of those dance-step… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Live each day as if it’s your last’, that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What… — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
“What if life had taken a different route? What is had preserved with those letters to publishers when she was twenty-two? Might… — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
“Emma's mid-twenties had brought a second adolescence even more self-absorbed and doom-laden than the first one. 'Why don't you just come home,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“So they were pen pals now, Emma composing long, intense letters crammed with jokes and underlining, forced banter and barely concealed longing;… — David Nicholls Acts of love Copy Share Image
“Recently he has noticed idiocy creeping up on him. His resolve to keep his head on straight, his feet on the ground,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a while day to make a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“So? Most people hate their jobs. That's why they're called jobs.” — David Nicholls Career Copy Share Image
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away. — David Nicholls Growing up Copy Share Image
Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it. — David Nicholls Comedy Copy Share Image
“…there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else. — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
