Quotes from Nicholas Sparks

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

write what readers want to read, which isn't necessarily what you want to write.

Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.

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.

I can't make this decision for you…this one's yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know that doesn't help, but it's all I can do.

If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.

Its easy to fall for someone that will find humor in every situation.

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.

I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.

I'm going to marry you one day, you know." "Is that a promise?" "If you want it to be.

I want her to be smart and kind... and I want you to fall in love with her, because you shouldn't spend the rest of your life alone.

Jamie: "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me." Landon: "Including me?" Jamie: "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!"

Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo

sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

You could have told me earlier." "You seemed so serious about the game. I didn't want to bother you.

Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.

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

That'Â'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.

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.

Everyone judges, it's a human nature.

For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.

Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.