David Nicholls
David Nicholls’s began his career as an actor, under the stage name David Holdaway, before becoming a novelist and television and film scriptwriter, adapting his own works and classic novels
Nicholls stopped acting when he realised he had committed himself ‘to a profession for which I lacked not just talent and charisma, but the most basic of skills. Moving, standing still – things like that.’ However, he found considerable success with his film versions of his own novels Starter for Ten and One Day and, among many others, his adaptation of the Booker Prize 2006-nominated Edward St Aubyn’s Melrose novels. Nevertheless, Nicholls claims that ‘The best thing about writing for a living is the distractions, and I welcome them whole-heartedly.’
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I think I wanted to get away from the idea of marriage or people getting together as the end of the story. I want to kind of write love stories but not write the obvious and familiar
David Nicholls speaks to Huff Post upon publication of 'Us' in 2014
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