Books Quote by Nicholas Sparks

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

— Salvatore Quasimodo

It's harder and harder to scare people, and filmmakers are aware of that, and they're making the movies better, and I think they feel…

— Jason Blum

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they…

— Will Ferrell

I try to do stories that make a difference -- stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear --…

— Ann Curry

I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then if I…

— Norman Jewison

I'm inspired by day to day life, things that people go through, things that make people tick. Everybody has a story, so you try…

— Shaggy

We try to do that for stories - we try to say, 'OK, here's the message, here's the theme, here's the good people and…

— Stephen Henderson

We just try to find stories that are interesting to us.

— Christopher Miller

Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old…

— Olga Tokarczuk

My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton…

— Dennis Cooper

“Virginia Woolf helps. Her novels make mine possible.”

— Sylvia Plath