Latest Nicholas Sparks Quotes from Interviews

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• You need someone who has a really good way of enabling trust in the cast and crew, or the cast particularly, to allow them the confidence to stretch themselves to get the performance that you're going to need to provide all of the emotional up and downs in the film.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Emotional, Needs, Enabling

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Imagination, Want

  Source: movies.about.com

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kings, Horror Genre, Excellence

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

• I've made the decision to adhere to three general truths when it comes to my novels: There will be a love-story element to the story, the novel will be set in eastern North Carolina, and the characters will be likeable. Then, I make each novel unique through differences in voice, perspective, age and personalities of the characters, and of course, plot.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Unique, Voice

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

• I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Average, Challenges

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ideas, Mind, I've Learned

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

• I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

• I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, People, Trying

  Source: www.indyweek.com

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Views

  Source: www.ftd.com

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Inspiration, Writing, Creative

  Source: www.indyweek.com

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Play, Romance, Interest

  Source: www.ftd.com

• 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!

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, Inspiration, Character

  Source: www.ftd.com

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Together, Stories

  Source: www.ftd.com

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.ftd.com

• That's what dating is for, after all - to learn if you're compatible with someone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dating, Ifs, Compatible

  Source: www.readersread.com

• There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection but this is actually a film that stays very close to the novel.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Cutting, Differences, Elements

  "Nicholas Sparks Wants to Work With Johnny Depp". Interview with Meggie Panos, www.popsugar.com. October 13, 2014.

• There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Function, Courses

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters. A screenplay is 120 pages, and it's all dialogue and action. The pacing of films is different, the structure is often different, and the internal lives of the characters must come across through the acting. Movies are just a different experience than reading - so it just depends on what an individual prefers.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Reading, Character

  "Exclusive: Our chat with Nicholas Sparks & exclusive movie poster debut". Interview with Tyler Kurbat, www.sheknows.com. October 24, 2012.

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Environment

  "Exclusive: Our chat with Nicholas Sparks & exclusive movie poster debut". Interview with Tyler Kurbat, www.sheknows.com. October 24, 2012.

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Interesting, Darkness, Want

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I'm not naive, I know that bad things happen, but most people do the right thing most of the time. Most people wake up and they try to do what's right for their relationships, whether it's marriage or family. They try to do what's right for their job. They try to make a better world for those around them, and that's what I want to write about.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jobs, Writing, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Fun, Writing, Twenties

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Important, Want

  Source: www.catholiceducation.org