Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. "

Nicholas Sparks

Valentine's Day

Related Quotes:

" My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving. "

Nicholas Sparks

" Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work. "

Nicholas Sparks

" I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you. "

" Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. "

Nicholas Sparks

" 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. "

Nicholas Sparks

" 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. "

Nicholas Sparks

" I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. "

Nicholas Sparks

" If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section. "

Nicholas Sparks

" We are most alive when we're in love. "

Valentine's Day

" Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever. "

Nicholas Sparks

" Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write.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

" Rekindled love is generally short-term. "

Nicholas Sparks

" You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. "

" Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible. "

Nicholas Sparks

Anything Is Possible

" How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. "

" To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was. "

Nicholas Sparks

" The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. "

" I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. "

Nicholas Sparks

" None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone. "

Nicholas Sparks

" I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church. "

Nicholas Sparks

" I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns. "

Nicholas Sparks

" Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. "

Nicholas Sparks

" A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. "

" I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex. "

Nicholas Sparks

" Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. "

William Shakespeare

" I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. "

" A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1. "

Nicholas Sparks

" I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it is, and to spend time with them. I don't think it's all about fancy presents or whatever. I think it's about spending that quality time with that special person. "

" I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much. "

Nicholas Sparks

Raising Children

" 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. "

Nicholas Sparks