Nicholas Evans

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July 26, 1950 in Worcestershire, The United Kingdom

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http://www.nicholasevans.com

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Nicholas Evans was born and grew up in Worcestershire, England. He studied law at Oxford University, graduating with first class honors, then worked as a journalist for three years on the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He then moved into televsion, producing films about US politics and the Middle-East for a weekly current affairs programme called Weekend World. It was during this time that he traveled a lot and got to know the United States.

In 1982 he started to produce arts documentaries - about famous writers, painters and film-makers, several of which won international awards (films about David Hockney,...more

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Books by Nicholas Evans

Average rating: 3.70 · 29,254 ratings · 2,032 reviews · 17 distinct works

	The Horse Whisperer 3.62 avg rating — 15,863 ratings — published 1995 — 72 editions	My rating:
	The Smoke Jumper 3.91 avg rating — 5,866 ratings — published 2001 — 32 editions	My rating:
	The Loop 3.79 avg rating — 3,773 ratings — published 1998 — 37 editions	My rating:
	The Divide 3.65 avg rating — 2,670 ratings — published 2005 — 41 editions	My rating:
	The Brave 3.44 avg rating — 1,014 ratings — published 2009 — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Walk 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Present and the Past in Medieval Irish Chronicles 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Men's Body Sculpting - 2nd Edition 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Που κρυβόταν η αλήθεια 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	My rating:

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Quotes by Nicholas Evans

“I guess that’s all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer

60 people liked it

“Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater. ”
― Nicholas Evans

38 people liked it

“The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.”
― Nicholas Evans

17 people liked it

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