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This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Actually All My Life Amazed Bristol British Came City Edinburgh Foolish Had Just Life Like Living Might My Life Nearly Really Sound South Spent I Came

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I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

~David Nicholls

Topics: About Complain Day Long Long Time Made Me Never Never Complain Off One Day Painfully Self-Conscious Taking Time Would

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For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

~David Nicholls

Topics: About Best Best Part Books Childhood Children Cinema Classics Encouraged Fiction Four History Horror Less Library Little Local Me Natural Natural History Parents Part Point Read Rubber Sci-Fi Stool Three Thrillers Times Visited Week Where

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Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little... unjust.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Books Does Feels Give Happen Hard Life Little Off Something Take Unjust Well Years You Your

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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 in the morning, worrying.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Awake Four Incredibly Lie Living Lucky Make Mean Morning Novelist Worrying

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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

Topics: About Actor Bit Done Early Embarrassment Felt Good Good Looking Good Time Had Having Having A Good Time Looking Lots Made Men Money Nor Should Success Suddenly Time Very Were Who Worked

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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

Topics: About Audition Because Being Benefit Flat Forms Holiday Nervous Never Out Sea Thought Thrown Up What If Worried Worry Wreck

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Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Dirty Films Hollywood Lot Love Think Well Word I Love

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I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Always Billy Cynical Films His Little Love Moving Romantic Same Same Time Something Things Time Touching Very Way Wilder I Love

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I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Being Big Embarrassed Emotional Like Moved Quite Sentiment Sentimental Stories Things Think Very I Think

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: November 30th, 1966

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