“Living in her University town felt like stayng on at a party that everyone else had left.” — David Nicholls Felt Like Copy Share Image
“Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions.” — David Nicholls Letter Copy Share Image
“I don’t think there’s anything we can do, is there? We either stop or we carry on.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice to you?” — David Nicholls Conspiracy Copy Share Image
She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man — David Nicholls Limits Copy Share Image
She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts. — David Nicholls Speak Copy Share Image
“Anyway, that's why you do it. Not to be famous, just to be good. To do good work. Find the thing you… — David Nicholls Acting Copy Share Image
“Why can't you just love me? Why can't you just be in love with me? You were once, weren't you? In the… — David Nicholls Just love Copy Share Image
Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit… — David Nicholls Be good Copy Share Image
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again. — David Nicholls Actor Copy Share Image
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… — David Nicholls Better person Copy Share Image
“And maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough… — David Nicholls Change the world Copy Share Image
“...if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would… — David Nicholls Candle 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
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 Cards 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
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south… — David Nicholls Actually 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
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 Brown Copy Share Image
And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a… — David Nicholls Constant 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
He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it… — David Nicholls Choices Copy Share Image
“I get this occasionally, the need to define myself as a something-or-other, and at various times in my life I have wondered… — David Nicholls Hole in my heart Copy Share Image
“Sylvie's sort of pregnant. Well not sort of. She is. Pregnant. Actually pregnant with a baby.' 'Oh Dexter! Do you know the… — David Nicholls Coming to an end 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 Envy Copy Share Image
“What are you going to do with your life?’ In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her… — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
“These words on the screen represented her latest project, an attempt at a series of commercial, discreetly feminist crime novels. She had… — David Nicholls Books Copy Share Image
There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But… — David Nicholls Ability Copy Share Image
“They regarded each other for a moment. He lay down once more, and after a moment she followed and jumped a little… — David Nicholls People say Copy Share Image
“You're not going to turn into a wanker, are you?" says Tone, opening a can of larger. "What do you mean?" "He… — David Nicholls Humerous Copy Share Image
People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else. — David Nicholls Change 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
“So? Most people hate their jobs. That's why they're called jobs.” — David Nicholls Career Copy Share Image
“You can’t expect people to build their lives around you” — David Nicholls David-nicholls Copy Share Image
“For Stephen, London was less a city that never slept, more a city that got a good nine hours.” — David Nicholls Humor Copy Share Image
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction. — David Nicholls Fiction Copy Share Image
Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for. — David Nicholls Hope Copy Share Image
I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades. — David Nicholls Grades Copy Share Image
