David Nicholls Quotes

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you

I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

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.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

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

I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!

Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.

The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

Dont run before you can walk

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

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

You must do what you enjoy.

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect

Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.

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

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.

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

I think reality is over-rated

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.