David Nicholls Quotes about Writing

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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