William Nicholson's Quotes
Born: 1948-01-12
Profession: Writer
Nation: British
Biography of William Nicholson
A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
Tags: Irish, Plastic, WhateverThere are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
Tags: American, Family, GreatThere is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
Tags: Compassion, Lives, SeriouslyWhen I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
Tags: Novel, Seriously, WriteWhy should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?
Tags: Enough, Power, WhyMadly, 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.
Tags: Business, Living, PastMy study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.
Tags: Books, Film, Study