David Nicholls Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.”

“I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.”

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

“I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.”

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

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

“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.”