Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

Everyone always noticed Ashley. She was like a flashing neon sign for anyone with an ounce of testosterone.

Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot.

She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.

A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. I'm dying, Landon.

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.

It’s the same thing. Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.

As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?

In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.

Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed

I'm sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired.

How's it hangin' Harry? I keep trying to die, but they won't let me. Well, you can't have everything.

I'm not saying it because I'm sweet. I'm saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine.

People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.

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

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director.

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

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

In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets.

Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

I've learned to keep my mind open to ideas from any source.

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

Inspiration can come from anywhere - an image, a comment, something that's happened to me or someone I know. It's hard to know exactly.

Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

One of the exhilarating parts of falling in love is discovering new things about one another, and seeing the world from a different point of view.

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.

The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.

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

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.

I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.

I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.

I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion - give me a little fire, be strong, don't be wishy-washy, do the right thing.

I personally think that most people, most of the time, do the right thing. I just believe this. Otherwise, the world would be chaos, and it's not.

As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do anything you want.

Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!