Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really… — David Nicholls 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
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her. — David Nicholls 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 Copy Share Image
I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I… — David Nicholls Ageing 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
“Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.” — David Nicholls Clothes Copy Share Image
I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign… — David Nicholls Exhibitions Copy Share Image
“Your last letter made me laugh so much, Em, but you should still get out of there because while it's good for… — David Nicholls Comedy Copy Share Image
In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him… — David Nicholls Best friend Copy Share Image
She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates.… — David Nicholls Behaviour Copy Share Image
“To be honest, I don’t think you deserved her, but I don’t think any of us deserved her really. She was always… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Finally, she loved someone and felt fairly confident that she was loved in return. If someone asked Emma, as they sometimes did… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“It’s like everyone has a central dilemma in their life, and mine was can you be in a committed, mature, loving adult… — David Nicholls Humor Copy Share Image
In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately. — David Nicholls Courage 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
[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Things should look right, Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary” — David Nicholls Sadness 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 Copy Share Image
“Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will.' Her lips touched his cheek. 'I just don't… — David Nicholls 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 Copy Share Image
“He had one of those faces where you were aware of the bones beneath the skin, as if even his bare skull… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of… — David Nicholls Being nice Copy Share Image
“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately, fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you… — David Nicholls Friendship Copy Share Image
“Faint-hearted as usual, she had left it too late. In the future, I’ll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I… — David Nicholls Faint hearted Copy Share Image
“but i hate this date, and will always hate this day every year fromnow on whenever it comes around” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Next morning get up early and go to the Taj Mahal. Perhaps you've heard of it, big white building named after that… — David Nicholls Taj mahal Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships. — David Nicholls Facts Copy Share Image
And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had… — David Nicholls 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
Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
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