Nicholas Sparks Quotes

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

Love, Change, Changes

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

Romantic, Thinking, Else

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

Once, Possible, Loving

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.
Nicholas Sparks

Time, Women, Men

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.
Nicholas Sparks

Love, Family, Wife

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

Love, Writing, Story

Rekindled love is generally short-term.
Nicholas Sparks

Love, Generally

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
Nicholas Sparks

Wedding, Wife, Book

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.
Nicholas Sparks

Writing, Done, Learn

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
Nicholas Sparks

Church, Characters, Profanity

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
Nicholas Sparks

Love, Children, Between

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
Nicholas Sparks

Words, Sometimes, Write

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

Love, Writing, Tragedy

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

Art, Business, Writing

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

Christian, Ways, Duty

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
Nicholas Sparks

Read, Might, Ask

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.
Nicholas Sparks

Important, Single, Two

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
Nicholas Sparks

After, Story, Characters

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.
Nicholas Sparks

Line, Break, Becoming

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
Nicholas Sparks

Love, Writing, Made

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.
Nicholas Sparks

Mind, Focus, Write

I don't write romance novels.
Nicholas Sparks

Write, Romance, Novels

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.
Nicholas Sparks

Life, Great, Romantic

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.
Nicholas Sparks

Sex, Writing, Moral

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.
Nicholas Sparks

Book, Done, Old

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 31, 1965

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