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Nicholas Sparks
American
Author
Born:
Dec 31
,
1965
Characters
First
Love
Me
Novels
Writing
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
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
Think
Married
Married Couple
About
Written
Noble
Between
Along
Most
Couple
Very
Committed
Children
Anyone
Enduring
Much
Act
Aspire
Raising
Raising Children
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
Buy
Me
Book
Wife
First
Sold
Ring
Marry
Wedding
Wedding Ring
Over
New
First Thing
Did
The First Thing
Again
Asked
Her
Thing
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.
Nicholas Sparks
Would
Would-Be
Submitted
Any
Romance
Novels
Rejected
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
Nicholas Sparks
Great
Writing
Great Deal
Pressure
First
Books
Since
Deal
Always
Were
Successful
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
Me
Wife
Giving
Nutshell
About
Someone
Emotion
Friends
Taught
Loving
Really
Means
Things
Receiving
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
Speak
Reading
Possible
Variety
Various
Excel
Area
Genres
Learn
How
Lot
Questions
Authors
Done
Which
Asking
Asking Questions
Mechanics
Novels
Things
I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.
Nicholas Sparks
Perseverance
Easy
Admit
Becoming
Get
Anything
Agent
Successful
Requires
I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.
Nicholas Sparks
Life
People
Writing
Country
Live
Way
Carolina
Eastern
Wilmington
More
Small
More Than Anything
Exception
Part
Small Towns
Suppose
Towns
Most
Than
North
North Carolina
Influences
Anything
I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.
Nicholas Sparks
Good
Everyone
Writer
Suppose
Most
Learn
Commercial
Any
Influenced
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
Woman
Women
Problem
Rest
Men
Think
Otherwise
Laurels
Marry
Know
Most
Well
How
Least
Begin
Romance
Them
Rekindled love is generally short-term.
Nicholas Sparks
Love
Love Is
Rekindled
Generally
Short-Term
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
Nicholas Sparks
Rich
Characters
Find
Could
None
Situations
Famous
Anyone
Happen
Themselves
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
Writing
Sex
Adultery
Kids
Moral
Parameters
About
Cross
Having
Write
Certain
Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.
Nicholas Sparks
News
Duty
Christian
Ways
Spreading
Your
Many
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.
Nicholas Sparks
Work
Book
Blessed
Stay
Purchased
Could
Studios
Liked
Been
Very
Close
Quite
Wanted
Hollywood
Worked
Really
Film
Honest
Adapted
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
Down
Said
Dollars
Done
May
Publishing
If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.
Nicholas Sparks
Me
You
Own
Section
Look
Romance
Fiction
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
Nicholas Sparks
Think
Characters
Above
Feel
Readers
Novels
Universal
I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.
Nicholas Sparks
Characters
Seldom
Like
Know
Look
Very
Even
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
Happy
Better
Wife
My Life
Easy
She
Because
Makes
Very
Romantic
Then
Much
Her
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
Nicholas Sparks
Love
Writing
Made
Mark
Dramatic
William
Shakespeare
His
Love Stories
Fiction
Stories
Biggest
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