Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
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The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.
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We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
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Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his wordy sentences: "When someone expends the least amount of motion on a given action, that's grace." The short story, by definition, embodies this notion of grace, because it requires such forceful compression to achieve its effects.
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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Part of my job is to get out and talk to people. I do that as much as I can.
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I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
