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I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Became Because Days Else Friends Idea Later Laughs Letters Love Loved Marks Off Page Put Send Someone Somewhere Somewhere Else Them Think To Love Two Used World Write Writer Writing You I Think

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David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.

~David Nicholls

Topics: About Actor Another Because Change Changed David Eight Had Mother Name She Stage Thought Touched Years

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When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Always Book Coming Halt Keep Looking Momentum Movie Natural Place Pressure Reading Really Sense Stop Up You

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Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

~David Nicholls

Topics: About Abstract Always Good Good Writing Image Internal Monologue None People People Say Process Say Screen Screenwriting Thought Thought Process Whereas Which Works Writing

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

~David Nicholls

Topics: Actor Again Because Being Did Like Really Terrible Twenties University Years

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I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.

~David Nicholls

Topics: About Always Badly Behaved Bit Dull Grow Grow Up Learning Liberal Men Self-Absorbed Selfish Should Something Sometimes Up Who Wickedness Wonder Worry Write Writing I Wonder

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Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Being Between Books Cynicism Day Edge Films Knife Line Love Manipulative Most Moving One Day Romance Stay Walk Wanted Without I Love

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

~David Nicholls

Topics: Been Ever Once Only Recognised Strangely Street Sweden

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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

Topics: Anything Better Dialogue Get Keen Opposed Prose Then Writing

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I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Among Common Computer Cornered Get Hand Point Something Stuck Switch Think Unless Which Write Writers I Think

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: November 30th, 1966

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