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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020