Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

The best movies are rooted in reality.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that's grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

I make it all up, and all of it is true.

True stories are way more interesting.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write.

I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.