I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life -… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish,cold.... the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“You weren't out there that long, were you? I can't bear to think that no one found you right away." Noah shook his head.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“There is something terrible in the moments after waking up, when the subconscious knows that something terrible has happened but before all the memories… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There is nothing like love. You should try it.” Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“more time she’d spent with him, the more convinced she became that he was by far the sexiest guy she’d ever met. Who else… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
You were spying on us?" "It was kind of hard not to. You were right there by the workshop with Will. it looked like… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
