Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

I love you now for what we’ve already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that’s to come.

It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

I dont think that we’re meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

There’s always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

My wife, my family, my friends – they’ve all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.

I’ll admit that it’s not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.