David Nicholls Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.

  David Nicholls

  Notebook, Coffee, Believe

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.104, Hachette UK

• It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.

  David Nicholls

  Song, Falling In Love, Book

• 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.

  David Nicholls

  Wall, Writing, Cells

• She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Made, Situation

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.55, Hachette UK

• The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.

  David Nicholls

  Art, Life Changing, Hard Work

• She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Sleepovers, Wasting Time

• …she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

  David Nicholls

  Reading, Writing, Reading And Writing

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.165, Hachette UK

• 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.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

• 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.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Get Better, Dialogue

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

  David Nicholls

  Silly, Writing, Fiction

• 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.

  David Nicholls

  Growing Up, Selfish, Writing

• I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Thinking, Somewhere Else

• 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.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, People, Abstract

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