At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction. — David Nicholls Fiction Copy Share Image
“I don't find it funny, I just think self-pity's probably not the answer.' ‘It’s not self-pity, it’s the facts.’ ‘My life is… — David Nicholls Life Copy Share Image
As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark… — David Nicholls Balls Copy Share Image
“She could see the words Calvin Klein against the brown hair on the small of his back and it occurred to her… — David Nicholls Brown hair Copy Share Image
“Josh likes to say he put the funk in 'functional'. Personally I think he just put the ass in 'embarrassing', but, hey,… — David Nicholls Humor Copy Share Image
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte… — David Nicholls Abe Copy Share Image
“Then Emma Mayhew dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever” — David Nicholls Gone forever Copy Share Image
What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times… — David Nicholls Hundred Copy Share Image
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… — David Nicholls Bigs Copy Share Image
“Absurdly, I punched it because nothing hurts a jellyfish more, nothing affronts their sense of dignity, than an underwater punch in the… — David Nicholls Humor Copy Share Image
I tell you what it is. It's...when I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean every day in… — David Nicholls Baby Copy Share Image
“They say the personal is political and it's certainly fair to say that, like her politics, Rebecca Epstein's kissing is radical, forthright… — David Nicholls Politics Copy Share Image
“Travelling', she sighed.'So predictable.' 'What's wrong with travelling?' 'Avoiding reality more like.' 'I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope… — David Nicholls Hope Copy Share Image
“No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was… — David Nicholls Caught in the middle Copy Share Image
I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she… — David Nicholls Like you 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 Emma-morley Copy Share Image
“The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise… — David Nicholls Ballet dance Copy Share Image
Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it — David Nicholls Heartache Copy Share Image
“This not-hotness had weighed heavily on his mind, but he tried to dismiss it as envy. Envy was just the tax you… — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness.… — David Nicholls Afternoon Copy Share Image
“Sympathy for the spinster. I'm perfectly content, thank you. And I refuse to be defined by my boyfriend. Or lack of. Once… — David Nicholls Life Copy Share Image
“If you have to keep something a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!” — David Nicholls First place Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock… — David Nicholls Awake Copy Share Image
