Nicholas Sparks Quotes

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Nicholas Sparks

Profession : Author

Birth : December 31, 1965

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

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My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

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I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

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Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.

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I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

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There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

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To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

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Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

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Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

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Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

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Rekindled love is generally short-term.

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I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.

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If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

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I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

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In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

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Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

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Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

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Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.

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I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

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I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

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