Nicholas Sparks Stories Quotations

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

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

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

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down to write and usually, I hit that, though it can take anywhere from 3-7 hours to get there. I usually know the basics of where the story is going, but the specifics just sort of come to me as I write.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative.

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.

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.

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

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.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?