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David Nicholls is a renowned British novelist known for his delicate emotional portrayal and unique narrative style. His works often focus on modern interpersonal relationships and emotional entanglements, which are highly appreciated by readers.

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Famous David Nicholls Quotes

“The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.”

Years Firsts Turns Left Laughing Becoming Kissing Sight Property Series Etc Becoming More Nudity First Kiss Landmarks

Book:Us

Source: Us

“This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose if you phone first”

Ifs Firsts Mean Loses Paper Competition Phones Call Me Scrap This Is Me

Author:David Nicholls

“Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.”

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Book:One Day

Source: One Day

“Maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North in Tender in the Night, and they're drinking because of a deep, unquenchable sadness of the soul, or the terrible legacy of the First World War, whereas I just get drunk because I'm thirsty, and I like the taste of lager.”

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Author:David Nicholls

“The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.”

“Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to a decent society. Why d'you think books are the first things that the fascists burn?”

Thinking Want Should Firsts Kind Book Courses Literature Understanding Study Written Appreciation Artistic Decent Fascists Endeavour

Book:A Question of Attraction: A Novel

Source: A Question of Attraction: A Novel

“If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place”

Ifs Firsts Secret

Author:David Nicholls

About the Author

Born: November 30, 1966
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 233

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