Nicholas Sparks Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Pages, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 09, 2011

• I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love You, Writing

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Art, Writing, Dollars

• In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Notebook, Summer

  "The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2011.

• When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way with you too? These letters are part of us now, part of our history, a reminder forever that we made it through this time. Thank you for helping me survive this year, but more than that, thank you in advance for all the years to come.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Years, Forever

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Want, What You Want

• Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write.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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Doors, Two

• I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Reality, Roots

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

• Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Way, Dear

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, People, Challenges

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

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, North Carolina, Stories

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

• As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Struggle, Moving, Writing

• In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Tragedy, Stories

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

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reading, Writing, Asking Questions

• There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Interview with Carol Fitzgerald, www.bookreporter.com. October 29, 1999.

• I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Heart, Novelists

  Source: collider.com

• I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Art, Writing, Movement

  "Book Talk - Nicholas Sparks on telling stories through text, film". Interview with Billy Cheung, www.reuters.com. October 10, 2013.

• 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 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Country, Writing, People

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

• I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Three, Sometimes

• There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Drama, Writing, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Ideas, Trying

• 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

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Romance, Bookstores

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

• I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion - give me a little fire, be strong, don't be wishy-washy, do the right thing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Strong, Passion, Writing

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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