Quote by William Nicholson

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you…

— William Nicholson

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and…

— William Nicholson

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

— William Nicholson

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the…

— William Nicholson

Use your power gently.

— William Nicholson

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

— William Nicholson

All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the…

— William Nicholson

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

— William Nicholson

We write to know we are not alone

— William Nicholson

“It was wonderful, Eddy. It was perfect.' 'No,' he says. 'But it will be.”

— William Nicholson