Nicholas Sparks Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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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  Book, Years, Done

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 04, 2012

• Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.

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  Literature, Anything Is Possible

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

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  Art, Writing, Dollars

• Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

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  Christian, News, Literature

• 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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  Inspiration, Character, People

• Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write.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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  Writing, Doors, Two

• I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

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  Character, Church, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

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  Character, Literature, Rich

  Interview with Jennifer Levitsky and Niloufar Motamed, www.bookreporter.com. April 28, 1998.

• 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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  Writing, People, Challenges

  Interview with Jana Siciliano, www.bookreporter.com. September 28, 2001.

• 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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  Men, Thinking, Romance

  The Book Reporter Interview, www.bookreporter.com. October 29, 1999.

• 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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  Wedding, Book, Wife

• I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

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  Writing, North Carolina, Stories

  The Book Reporter Interview, www.bookreporter.com. September 28, 2001.

• Rekindled love is generally short-term.

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  Love Is, Literature, Term

• 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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  Reading, Writing, Asking Questions

• 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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  Writing, Romance, Bookstores

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

• 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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  Writing, Ideas, Trying

• 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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  Country, Writing, People

  The Book Reporter Interview, www.bookreporter.com. September 28, 2001.

• 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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  Book, Blessed, Hollywood

  "Author Talk: The Notebook". Interview with Paula K. Parker, www.bookreporter.com. June, 2004.

• I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sex, Writing, Kids

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