Nicholas Sparks Novels Quotes

#1. I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

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#2. Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks.

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#3. Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.

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#4. Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

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#5. Then again, if you opinions on women prevent me from carrying out my work, then I would be more than happy to suggest a place for you to stuff them... You're the bos... but YOU seem to be the brains. It's Abigail Rook, yes? Mind if I call you Abbie? Lovely. - Nellie

William Ritter

#6. By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

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#7. The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)

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#8. I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

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#9. I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

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#10. Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

Alec-Tweedie

#11. Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

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#12. The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.

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#13. While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. I don't write romance novels.

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#15. Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

Thomas Brooks

#16. They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years

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#17. I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.

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#18. My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.

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#19. The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

Walter Lippmann

#20. Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

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#21. The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.

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#22. I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.

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#23. Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.

Jeffery Deaver

#24. I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

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#25. What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

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#26. If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.

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#27. The day my life changed forever ... The day I first saw you.

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#28. The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.

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#29. The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea ... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Ad Reinhardt