1. “I also think it’s important to realize that to get published, you’re not competing against me, or Stephen King, or John Grisham—we have spent years developing audiences that we bring to the table. So, you have to write better than we do, or more originally, or have more original stories, or work in a genre that has a need."   

2. “One of the things I do when I write a story like The Lucky One is: I try to move the reader through all the emotions of life.”   

3. “"In my books, there’s always a love story and there’s anger, betrayal, jealousy and a struggle. You’ve got to have all of these and, of course, sadness. If you lack one of these, the story feels incomplete – like a fairytale."    

4. “In a love story, you have to have a reason the characters can't be together. This provides the struggle. I write tragedies – updated Greek tragedies.”   

5. “Yes, somebody always dies. All great love stories, by definition, have to end in tragedy. The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when one of them dies.”   

6. “You know a bittersweet ending when you feel it. … And it’s challenging to pull off.”   

7. “Some of the reasons readers and critics have given for my books’ popularity are: the novels are easy-to-read and entertaining, the reader is made to feel like “a fly on the wall”   

8. “I think it’s important to understand that it is an industry in which the publisher has to sell your book, and if they don’t think there’s an audience for your book, you’re probably not going to get it published.   

9. “It’s important to realize that readers are forgiving to a point, in that if you don’t put out your best possible work every time, your audience will begin to fall.”   

10. “Villains are for comic books.  A one-dimensional, purely evil character who presents an obstacle to a pair of star-crossed lovers doesn’t function well in the context of a complex, believable love story.  What’s far more interesting and effective is when that antagonist is humanized, and his relationship to the protagonists complicated.”   

Nicholas Sparks   

  Nicholas Charles Sparks was born December 31, 1965, Omaha, NE. Sparks is an American Writer, best known for romance, such works as, The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, and several more. He has published nineteen novels and two non-fiction books, many becoming international bestsellers.      

“None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.” ~ Nicholas Sparks     

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