Books Quote by Nicholas Sparks

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is…

— Nicholas Sparks

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

— Nicholas Jarecki

“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to…

— Harold Bloom

Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I…

— Graham Greene

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

— Sidney Lumet

Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.

— Ram Dass

“We know that those things to which we have an emotional connection stick with us better than those for which we have none. Dramatization…

— Brian McDonald

“...I've been ripped off, lied to, slandered, gossiped about slapped, falsely accused, and had my truths not believed. I've had my heart broken, had…

— Jessica Page Morrell

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of…

— Leigh Hunt

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

— Chelsea Handler

“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and I get…

— Emma Hart