382 Quotes by David Nicholls

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.

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

Work hard at . . . something.

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.

...it's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama...

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

But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!

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

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