Top 32 Quotes by David Nicholls

About David Nicholls

These are some quotes by English author David Nicholls Novelist, who was born on November 30, 1966.

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 whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.

David Nicholls

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 writing of dialogue.

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 writing of dialogue.

David Nicholls

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

David Nicholls

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

David Nicholls

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

David Nicholls

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

David Nicholls

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

David Nicholls

When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.

David Nicholls

My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

David Nicholls

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

David Nicholls

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