Top 500 Nicholas Sparks Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.”

— Nicholas Sparks

452. “They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.”

— Nicholas Sparks

453. “When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative.”

— Nicholas Sparks

454. “Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can’t get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he’s too busy looking for your brain.”

— Nicholas Sparks

455. “It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.”

— Nicholas Sparks

456. “I don’t know if spirits do indeed roam the world, but even if they do, I will sense your presence everywhere. When I listen to the ocean, it will be your whispers; when I see a dazzling sunset, it will be your image in the sky.”

— Nicholas Sparks

457. “He smiled, thinking that for just an instant, it was easy to imagine they were still married, both of them on the same team, both of them still in love. Except, of course, that they weren’t.”

— Nicholas Sparks

458. “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.”

— Nicholas Sparks

459. “For some reason, it didn’t feel right. Victor’s words seemed to confirm that. There was another reason that he’d come here. Falling in love with Elizabeth might have been part of it. But that wasn’t all. Something else was coming. There is more.”

— Nicholas Sparks

460. “As hard as it was, as terrible and unfair as the way things turned out, i wouldn’t have traded the few days i spent with him for anything.”

— Nicholas Sparks

461. “The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I’m a little bit more focused toward the future.”

— Nicholas Sparks

462. “Dramatic fiction – William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.”

— Nicholas Sparks

463. “I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a rarity for me growing up, and when they did happen, they often struck me as lifeless, something he did because he felt he was supposed to, not because he wanted to.”

— Nicholas Sparks

464. “Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks.”

— Nicholas Sparks

465. “As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they’d lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.”

— Nicholas Sparks

466. “I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn’t marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.”

— Nicholas Sparks

467. “Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”

— Nicholas Sparks

468. “He liked her; it was as simple as that.”

— Nicholas Sparks

469. “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.”

— Nicholas Sparks

470. “I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.”

— Nicholas Sparks

471. “God is merciful to children, but the children must be worthy as well.”

— Nicholas Sparks

472. “I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don’t.”

— Nicholas Sparks

473. “I’m sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired.”

— Nicholas Sparks

474. “What the younger generation didn’t understand was that the grass was greenest where it’s watered...”

— Nicholas Sparks

475. “People were destined for one another; that’s the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.”

— Nicholas Sparks

476. “If I knew where creativity came from, I’d probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.”

— Nicholas Sparks

477. “Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn’t an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.”

— Nicholas Sparks

478. “I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.”

— Nicholas Sparks

479. “While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it’s often much more difficult to heal them.”

— Nicholas Sparks

480. “The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.”

— Nicholas Sparks

481. “Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.”

— Nicholas Sparks

482. “I have seldom been described as shy.”

— Nicholas Sparks

483. “And while he was doing those things, he thought about Allie and the love that was missing from both their lives.”

— Nicholas Sparks

484. “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.”

— Nicholas Sparks

485. “Even though he was here, she couldn’t quite process it. She squeered her eyes shut before opening them again. Yep, still there. Amazing.”

— Nicholas Sparks

486. “For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself.”

— Nicholas Sparks

487. “Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.”

— Nicholas Sparks

488. “I wanted to write a story that was different than what I’ve done before – so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.”

— Nicholas Sparks

489. “Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.”

— Nicholas Sparks

490. “I don’t want to be on the phone talking numbers and budget. I want to be creating a world.”

— Nicholas Sparks

491. “It doesn’t matter to me whether I write in a man’s voice or a woman’s, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it.”

— Nicholas Sparks

492. “Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.”

— Nicholas Sparks

493. “There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.”

— Nicholas Sparks

494. “I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.”

— Nicholas Sparks

495. “There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you’re automatically cutting out elements and introspection but this is actually a film that stays very close to the novel.”

— Nicholas Sparks

496. “That’s my sweetheart in there. I’m not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.”

— Nicholas Sparks

497. “I’m a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don’t think about the film potential at all.”

— Nicholas Sparks

498. “True friendship exists when silence between two people is comfortable.”

— Nicholas Sparks

499. “There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”

— Nicholas Sparks

500. “I know my journey’s not over yet, and that life is a winding path, but I can only hope it somehow circles back to the place I belong. That’s.”

— Nicholas Sparks