David Nicholls Quotes

• Best to leave quietly, and no reunions. Move on, and look to the future. Plenty more faces out there.

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• You can’t expect people to build their lives around you.

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• No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

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• I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference. You know, actually change something.

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• Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

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• Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

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• I applied for the University of Life. Didn’t get the grades.

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• It’s hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.

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• If you have to keep something secret it’s because you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place!

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• Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

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• Imagine staying awake all night not because you’re worried about the future but because it’s fun.

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• Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

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• You must do what you enjoy.

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• At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

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• I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.

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• There should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

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• The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

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• I think reality is over-rated.

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• You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it’s enough to tell a few good jokes.

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• Life is about to change if only because it must.

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David Nicholls (37)

Birth:	30th November, 1966
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Screenwriter

About

David Alan Nicholls was born in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England. He is an English novelist and screenwriter. He earned BA degree in Drama and English in 1988 at Bristol University. As a screenwriter, he co-wrote the adapted screenplay of Simpatico and contributed four scripts to the third series of Cold Feet. For the latter, he was nominated for a British Academy Television Craft Award for Best New Writer. He wrote a screen adaptation of his novel, One Day, which was made into a film starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. In 2006, his film adaptation Starter for 10 was released in cinemas.

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