Nicholas Sparks Quotes About Literature
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What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
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None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
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Rekindled love is generally short-term.
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All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
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In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love stories. I could never write a love story based on the Titanic - that was never a novel. If I see an idea that's been done in film, I try to avoid that.
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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.
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My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.
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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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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.
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I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
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I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?
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I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.
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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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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.
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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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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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Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.
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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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