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• Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write.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

• 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

• 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.

• You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Simple, Ifs

• If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Hands, White

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

• The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Fun, Writing, Twenties

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is. Above all, a good book tells a good story. Focus on the story first. Ask yourself, 'Will other people find this story so interesting that they will tell others about it?' Remember: A bestselling book usually follows a simple rule, 'It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told'; not, 'It's a wonderfully told story.'

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Simple

• I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Today, Easier

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I'm not naive, I know that bad things happen, but most people do the right thing most of the time. Most people wake up and they try to do what's right for their relationships, whether it's marriage or family. They try to do what's right for their job. They try to make a better world for those around them, and that's what I want to write about.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jobs, Writing, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I don't write romance novels.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Romance, Novel

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

• 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.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Men, Voice

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

• Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Environment

  "Exclusive: Our chat with Nicholas Sparks & exclusive movie poster debut". Interview with Tyler Kurbat, www.sheknows.com. October 24, 2012.

• Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Fiction, Stories

• 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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