Nicholas Sparks Quotes

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them.

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.