Nicholas Sparks Quotes

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

Authors worry. We worry about writing. Worry about our editors, our agents, our reviews, and our readers. We worry about everything, including all forms of social media including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and personal websites.

I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating 'Critical Care' for years. I would go for a whole year and not touch it. And then I'd go back to it.

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.