Nicholas Sparks People Quotations

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.

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

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

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.

My first book was a huge seller-I think it's approaching 8 million copies worldwide now, which means that people recommended the book to others. Why? I suppose it went to what's best in people-faith, love, loyalty-and that's how people like to see themselves.

Silence is Holy. It draws people closer together. Because those who are only comfortable with each other, can sit without speaking.

Promoting a book is always the same-busy but fun. I like to meet people who enjoy my work.

The best part of having a movie adapted is knowing that more people will become familiar with my work.

After Hurricane Katrina, my wife and I, like so many others, were going to help, but we wondered what the best way to help was, ... We went through Hurricane Floyd here, so we knew that a few years later there were people still living in trailers. That stuff is so terrible. So we decided to put our energy not into the post immediate stress, but rather the stress that sets in a week later when 'Oh my God. We have no house, no job, your school is gone.' Those kinds of things.

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

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

People hide the truth because they're afraid.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.

If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.

There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people...

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks. it's hard at times but it makes a kid strongs in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good and bad to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as much historically accurate as you possibly can because there are thousands of people who are wildly interested in the Civil War. If we get anything wrong, there is no doubt that we're going to hear from them.

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should

Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .

I personally think that most people, most of the time, do the right thing. I just believe this. Otherwise, the world would be chaos, and it's not.

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.

It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.

Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.

While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.

But Noah, you're not supposed to do this, and I can't let you. So go back to your room." Then smiling softly and sniffling and shuffling some papers on the desk, she says: "Me, I'm going downstairs for some coffee. I won't be back to check on your for a while, so don't do anything foolish." She rises quickly, touches my arm, and walks toward the stairs. She doesn't look back, and suddenly I am alone. I don't know what to think. I look at where she had been sitting and see her coffee, a full cup, still steaming, and once again I learn that there are good people in the world.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

People plan, God laughs.

You don't feel the need to talk all the time, do you," she said. He smiled. "No." "Most people don't know how to appreciate silence. They can't help talking." "I talk, I just want to have something to say first.

Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last

Hardships drive some people apart. Others, like us, grow even closer.

As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?

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.

the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.

But if it couldn't be love and it didn't feel like lust, what was it? Like? Did he like her? Of course, he did, but that word didn't capture his feelings, either. It was a little too... vague and soft around the edges. People liked ice cream. People liked to watch television. It meant nothing, and it didn't come close to explaining why, for the first time, he felt the urge to tell someone the truth...

When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.

I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

I just tell people what they already know, but are afraid to admit to themselves.

You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.