“It wasn't much of a plan, and already there had been mistakes.” — David Nicholls Failure Copy Share Image
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is… — David Nicholls Achieve 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
It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year… — David Nicholls Affair 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
“But it’s okay, it’s fine, because Tara is saying let’s go and dance before it wears off, so they all go and… — david nicholls Having fun Copy Share Image
People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else. — David Nicholls Moving Copy Share Image
Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films. — David Nicholls Cinema Copy Share Image
I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty. — David Nicholls Expectations Copy Share Image
All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my… — David Nicholls Achieve Copy Share Image
“Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die… — David Nicholls Friendship 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 Among Copy Share Image
Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you — David Nicholls Call me 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 the world Copy Share Image
And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others — David Nicholls Joy Copy Share Image
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed,… — David Nicholls Celebrate Copy Share Image
Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so… — David Nicholls Book Copy Share Image
“They spoke to each other in strange, strangulated voices, and lost the knack of making each other laugh, jeering at each other… — David Nicholls Last forever Copy Share Image
“The last year had been a series of wrong turns, bad choices, abandoned projects. There was the all-girl band in which she… — David Nicholls Bad choices Copy Share Image
“Suki is the nation’s ideal girlfriend, a woman for whom bubbliness is a way of life, verging on a disorder.” — David Nicholls Life Copy Share Image
“Brian: I love books Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books?” — David Nicholls Book Copy Share Image
