Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
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Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning.
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But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.
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You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.
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I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be.
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How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
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Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.
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You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.
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Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
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Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.
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Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.
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The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
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I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.
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After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.
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It's hard for me to talk to her. All I can do when I look at her is think about the day when I won't be able to. So I spend all my time at school thinking about her, wishing I could see her right then, but when I get to her house, I don't know what to say.
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Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.
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Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.
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Every great love starts with a great story.
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Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep down, it was exactly what she wanted, leaving her more confused that she'd been in years.
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Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.
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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.
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I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.
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I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
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Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.