"I don't write romance novels...." - Quote by Nicholas Sparks

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

“It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.”

“She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.”

“We read often with as much talent as we write.”

“I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.”

“What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.”

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

“Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.”

“I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!”