William Nicholson

Novellist and screenwriter

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Recently re-watched The Thick of It. Armando Ianucci is a genius.

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Proud to follow Frank Cottrell Boyce, finest of writers.

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@WilsonShawBeats You warm my heart. I love my Seeker trilogy but not many people know it. You must be a very discerning reader.

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'A terribly English display of smug gigglingly unfunny charmless and spiteful bullying': @Peter Bradshaw1 on Bad Sex Award. Spot on.

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Terrifying long article in today's Guardian about Kremlin's information warfare. Read and be afraid for all rational debate.

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Clock change screws my work routine. Yes I'm a sad case but routine keeps me rolling. Thinking of going onto private time, like Arizona.

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Talked today at #screenwritingGMC@guardian and now have some very smart Twitter followers. I'd better start tweeting or they'll lose faith.

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Suddenly I get the point of Twitter. It's what you do when you're far from home and bored and lonely. Next stop Russian roulette.

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Why do hotel dining rooms have such poor lighting? Don't they know lone travellers like me read while eating? Or am I a tiny sad minority?

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In Amherst, Mass, Sunday for book event, my breakfast server had bought my book! Hadn't read it yet, but hey. Only in a five-college town.

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Julian Bell in his brilliant bio Van Gogh: A Power Seething quotes Vincent: 'When one is praised and has drunk one becomes sad.'

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On March 7 I drive from Boston to Amherst (location of new novel). I'm hearing apocalyptic tales of snow. Am I mad? Any advice?

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My new novel is out, and I look round me wistfully, hoping for the never-seen sight of a stranger on a train reading one of my books.

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Just talked live on Front Row about new book. Odd how I have no memory of anything I said, but I did fit in two Emily Dickinson poems.

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Faith in humanity reaffirmed - wonderful Carolyn Smith (8.40 EUS @VirginTrains manager) got us to my father's funeral after cancelled train.

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Richard Brody on 'Birdman' in the New Yorker. Deep and wise. This is film reviewing of very high order.

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“Birdman” Never Achieves Flight http://t.co/uO6AWpU9uG via @newyorker

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Brilliant analysis of 'Gone Girl' by Zoe Heller in New York Review of Books Dec 4 2014. I've tried to share the link in a separate tweet.

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The Hard Work of Marriage by Zoë Heller http://t.co/21OaIWPh2k via @nybooks