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David Nicholls

Nato: November 30, 1966 – Eastleigh, Hampshire, England

David Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter whose work centers on love, friendship, class, and the passage of time. He is best known for the novels Starter for Ten, One Day, and Us; One Day became an international bestseller and major screen adaptation, while Us was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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I don’t think I’ll write another love story
-David Nicholls: I don’t think I’ll write another love story
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The book changed my life in ways the teenage Hardy-freak could never have predicted and I remain very proud of it
-David Nicholls on One Day
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Could I write a book that had no love story? I don’t know if I’d want to
-David Nicholls: Could I write a book that had no love story? I don’t know if I’d want to
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I wanted to write about now, but ‘now’ changes day by day
-David Nicholls: I crave to see people touching, kissing and fighting on screen
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There has always been a connection in my mind between literature and landscape
-Thirsty, wet, desolate. The dream
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I wanted to write something that felt a bit more grown-up, a bit darker
-David Nicholls: I wanted to write something a bit more grown-up
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I'm desperate that the next book shouldn't disappoint people
-David Nicholls: I'm desperate that the next book shouldn't disappoint people
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I'm not having a mid-life crisis in the conventional way
-David Nicholls: I'm not having a mid-life crisis in the conventional way
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It’s a love story and it takes place on a long walk
-One Day Author David Nicholls On How Walks in the Yorkshire Dales Inspired His New Book
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My books are often about fundamentally decent people making mistakes for perfectly understandable reasons
-David Nicholls: I’m genuinely deathly at a dinner party

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