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Nicholas Sparks
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
Athletics Competitor
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Taekwondo Athlete
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Nicholas Charles Sparks
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I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.
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The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.
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At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me.
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The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow.
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He was the toast to her butter.
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Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.
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I know what it's like to be day and night now always together, forever apart.
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I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life
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Even if I thought he as perfect for her. She turned to face him. What were we thinking? We weren't, he said. We were in love.
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He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.
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Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.
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I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?
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Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.
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Because it protects you. And when I jumped from the Humvee, I believed it would save me, too, in the same way you believe it will always save you.” “No, I don’t,” Thibault began. “Then why, my friend, do you still carry it with you?
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Life passes by now like the scenery outside a car window. I breathe and eat and sleep as I always did, but there seems to be no great purpose in my life that requires active participation on my part...I do not know where I am going or when I will get there.
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By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
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We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.
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One of the exhilarating parts of falling in love is discovering new things about one another, and seeing the world from a different point of view.
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It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.
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Please... don't ask me to go with you, because if you do, I'll go. Please don't ask me to tell Frank about us, because I'll do that, too. Please don't ask me to give up my responsibilities or break up my family... I love you, and if you love me, too, then you just can't ask me to do these things. Because I don't trust myself enough to say no
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