Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.

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

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

Mom says it's because she has PMS. Do you even know what that means? "I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome

It doesn't matter to me whether I write in a man's voice or a woman's, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it.

There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.

No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.

Nana glanced at Ben. "I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.

Did you hear that Mitch? Your mom thinks you're beautiful.

He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating." At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.

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.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

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

without music he felt aimless and adrift.

You need to learn patience, you grasshopper