To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight… — David Nicholls Death Copy Share Image
“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at… — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . . — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic. — David Nicholls Character Copy Share Image
She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down… — David Nicholls 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 Copy Share Image
“Then Emma Mayhew dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the… — David Nicholls 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 Copy Share Image
He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it… — David Nicholls Candle Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always… — David Nicholls Danger Copy Share Image
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages… — David Nicholls 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
“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
“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
“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
“She began walking again, south towards The Mound. 'Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but… — David Nicholls Change Copy Share Image
The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly,… — David Nicholls Art Copy Share Image
“He hoped to be successful, to make his parents proud and to sleep with more than one woman at the same time,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Em, we've known each other five or six years now, but two years properly, as, you know, 'friends', which isn't that long… — David Nicholls Money Copy Share Image
“But Dexter blinked hard, shook his head then nudged her hand with his. ‘So what I thought we’d do for the next… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Don't they appreciate how hard it is, staying decent, keeping your head on straight when so much is happening to you and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“I’m not expressing myself very well—’ ‘Dexter, I understand you perfectly, that’s the problem—” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of… — David Nicholls British Copy Share Image
It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“And is that what love looks like -- all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?" "Sometimes it is.” — David Nicholls Love Copy Share Image
An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it… — David Nicholls Adaptation Copy Share Image
“I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference. You know, actually change something.” — David Nicholls Change 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 Girlfriend Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, I think there are more important things in life than "relationships".” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind — David Nicholls Communication Copy Share Image
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“May cause drowsiness.' - the most beautiful words in the English language. Once it was 'do you have a t-shirt I can… — David Nicholls Beautiful words Copy Share Image
I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing. — David Nicholls Amazing Copy Share Image
“Then ------ dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
