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I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.

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Regret, Hate, Thinking

David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.15, Hachette UK

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In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.

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Thinking, Eight, Years

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

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Serious

David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.34, Hachette UK

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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?

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Romantic Love, Love Is, Diners

David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.130, Hachette UK

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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

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Thinking, Unhappiness, Achieve

David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.42, Hachette UK

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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.

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Writing, People, Abstract

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Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

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Anxiety

"David Nicholls: why he made the headlines in 2010" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2010.

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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.

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Writing, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

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Twenties, Four, Littles

David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.42, Hachette UK

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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.

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Moving, Book, Knives

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This isn't a letter, it's a gift.

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Letters

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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.

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Holiday, Sea, Worry

"David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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

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Thinking, World, Language

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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.

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Writing, Sleepovers, Wasting Time

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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.

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Weight, Littles, Kind

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I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

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Taken, Hands, Phones

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The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

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Self, One Day, Pleasure

David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.27, Hachette UK

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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.

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Humor, Hands, Use

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

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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

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Growing Up, Thinking, Sensible

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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.

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Speed, Intimacy

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An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

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Book, Character, Ideas

"David Nicholls: Adapting Great Expectations for the screen". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2012.

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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.

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Skills, Ideas, Giving

David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.83, Villard

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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. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.

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Grief, Hands, Ice

David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.365, Hachette UK

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

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Lying, Adventure, Soul

"One Day". Book by David Nicholls, www.abc.net.au. June 11, 2009.

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She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

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People, Trying, Doomed

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