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William Nicholson [1948-0] British

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Writer, Screenwriter

William Benedict Nicholson, OBE, FRSL is a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist who has been nominated twice for an Oscar.

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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.		101
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.	Experience	102
Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.		103
When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.		104
Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?		105
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.		106
A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.		107
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.		108
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.		109

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