William Nicholson Quotes

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
William Nicholson

Whatever, Irish, Plastic

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.
William Nicholson

Hero, Everyone, Novel

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
William Nicholson

Family, Great, American

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
William Nicholson

Compassion, Lives, Seriously

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
William Nicholson

Write, Seriously, Novel

Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?
William Nicholson

Power, Enough, Why

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.
William Nicholson

Business, Past, Find

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.
William Nicholson

Study, Film, Books

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: January 12, 1948

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