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Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American romance novelist and screenwriter. He has published twenty novels and two non-fiction books. Several of his novels have become international bestsellers, and eleven of his romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film all with multimillion-dollar box office grosses. His novels feature stories of tragic love with happy endings.

Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska and wrote his first novel, The Passing, in 1985, while a student at the University of Notre Dame. His first published work came in 1990, when he co-wrote with Billy Mills Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding, which sold approximately 50,000 copies in its first year. In 1993, Sparks wrote his breakthrough novel The Notebook in his spare time while selling pharmaceuticals in Washington, D.C.. Two years later, his novel was discovered by the literary agent Theresa Park, who offered to represent him. The novel was published in October 1996 and made the New York Times best-seller list in its first week. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. December 1965   •   Other names Nicholas Spark
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Nicholas Sparks Quotes

“"I know we've had our differences, Allie, and that we haven't seen eye to eye on everything. I'm not perfect, but I did the best I could with raising you. I'm your mother and I always will be. That means I'll always love you."
Allie was silent for a moment, then: "What should I do?"
"I don't know, Allie. That's up to you. But I would think about it. Think about what you really want."”

Nicholas Sparks

Anne Nelson and Allie Nelson, An Unexpected Visitor, p. 137
1990s, The Notebook (1996)

Love , Thinking , Perfection

“"Denial is an ugly thing, Nicky." "I'm not in denial.""See what I mean? That's denial."”

Nicholas Sparks

Micah and Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 5, p. 60
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

“…the grass isn't always greener on the other side. What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greener where it's watered, which meant that both Frank and Amanda had to get out their hoses if they wanted to make things better.”

Nicholas Sparks

Evelyn Collier, Chapter 6, p. 103
2009, The Best of Me (2011)

Understanding , Grass , Water

“Life was about spending time together, about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as they watched the sun go down. It wasn't glamorous, but it was, in many ways, the best that life had to offer. Wasn't that how the old saying went? Who, on their deathbed, ever said they wished they had worked harder? Or spent less time enjoying a quiet afternoon? Or spent less time with their family?”

Nicholas Sparks

Lexie Darnell, Chapter 17, p. 269
2000s, True Believer (2005)

Life , Family , Way , Time

“Dying is a strange business, and I'm not going to bore you with the details. I might have weeks or I might have months and though it's a cliche, it's true that so many of the things I once believed to be important no longer are. …I find myself reflecting on the essential moments of my life.”

Nicholas Sparks

Carly, Chapter 43, p. 336
2009, Safe Haven (2010)

Life , Business

“He knew that Amanda would always be the very best part of him, the self he would always long to know.”

Nicholas Sparks

Dawson Cole, Chapter 1, p. 23
2009, The Best of Me (2011)

Parting

“…even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me.”

Nicholas Sparks

Amanda Collier Ridley, Chapter 7, p. 137
2009, The Best of Me (2011)

Guy

“We'd been raised to survive, to meet challenges, and to chase our dreams. … And we don't only love each other, but like each other as well.”

Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks, Epilogue, p. 355
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Love , Dreams

“…He was with the woman and daughters he loved, and who could ever need or want anything more than that?…It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all, it was a day in which everything was exactly the way it should be.”

Nicholas Sparks

Travis Parker, Epilogue, p. 272
2000s, The Choice (2007)

Love , Way , Daughters

“As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you.”

Nicholas Sparks

Ruth Levinson, Chapter 5 Ira, p. 78
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Life , Joy

“Where does a story truly start? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet these are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen”

Nicholas Sparks

Narrator, Prologue, p. 1
2000s, A Bend in the Road (2001)

Life , Fate

“Dreams are funny like that. You want something so desperately, you somehow get it, then just as suddenly it's over. Like running races--all that training for a couple of minutes on the track. The secret, I've learned, is to appreciate the process.”

Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 12, p. 206
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Secret , Dreams , Learning , Training

“But would she do it differently if she could? She doubted it. Her experiences growing up ad formed her into the woman that she'd become, just as his experiences had formed him, and she didn't regret them. And yet…she knew that wasn't the question that mattered. …she realized the choice before her was this: Where do I go from here?
It is never too late to change things.”

Nicholas Sparks

Gabby Holland, Chapter 13, p. 168
2000s, The Choice (2007)

Question , Change

“I sometimes think to myself that I’m the last of my kind.”

Nicholas Sparks

Ira Levinson, Chapter 1 Ira, p. 1
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Thinking

“…he often wondered when exactly her feeling for him finally overwhelmed those she'd had for Kevin…
He wasn't sure; capturing a specific instant like that was no more possible than locating a specific drop of water in the ocean.”

Nicholas Sparks

Travis Parker, Chapter 15, p. 193-194
2000s, The Choice (2007)

Feeling , Water

“My dad was a good man. A kind man… I…loved him for what he did. He'd foster independence, showed us the value of education, and taught us to be curious about the world. Even more important, he'd helped the three of us become close as siblings, which I consider to be the greatest gift of all. I could have asked for nothing more in a father. And really, who could?”

Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 15, p. 287
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Love , World , Education , Help

“It was like a vacation, one he hadn't planned for, but one that left him feeling more rested than he had in years. For the first time in what seemed like forever, he was choosing the pace of his life rather than his life choosing the pace. Being bored, he decided, was an underrated art form.”

Nicholas Sparks

Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 4, p. 52
2000s, At First Sight (2005)

Life , Art , Feeling , Time

“But I'm different now than i was then. Just like I was different at the end of the trip than I'd been at the beginning. And I'll be different tomorrow than I am today. And what that means is that I can never replicate that trip. Even if I went to the same places and met the same people, it wouldn't be the same. My experience wouldn't be the same. To me, that's what traveling should be about. Meeting people, learning to not only appreciate a different culture, but really enjoy it like a local, following whatever impulse strikes you.”

Nicholas Sparks

Travis Parker, Chapter 8, p. 102-103
2000s, The Choice (2007)

People , Travel , Learning

“I had never dreamed of being a soldier; I had never fired a gun. I was not, nor ever had been, a fighter of any sort, but even so, I loved my country, and I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war.”

Nicholas Sparks

Ira Levinson, Chapter 5 Ira, p. 74
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Love , War , Dreams , Imagination

“…people are pretty much the same. Especially through adolescence and early adulthood. For the most part, people go through the same experiences and think the same thing, but somehow on one ever escapes the belief that his experience is unique in every conceivable way.”

Nicholas Sparks

Stephanie Parker, Chapter 9, p. 111
2000s, The Choice (2007)

People , Way , Thinking , Parting

“In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were,…”

Nicholas Sparks

Marilyn Bonner, Chapter 6, p. 94
2009, The Best of Me (2011)

Money , Personality

“Nowadays, she thought, it was the little things in life that mattered. If the highlights in her past set the tone, it was the day-by-day events that now defined who she was.”

Nicholas Sparks

Julie Barenson, Chapter 1, p. 11
2000s, The Guardian (2003)

Life , Past

“My Dearest Catherine,
I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.”

Nicholas Sparks

Garrett Blake, Chapter 1, p. 20
1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)

Life , Singing

“As much as I love her, I admit that she has always remained somewhat of an enigma to me…
I liked this about her. I liked the mystery she added to my life. I liked the occasional silence between us, for ours was a comfortable silence. It was a passionate silence, one that had its roots in comfort and desire.”

Nicholas Sparks

Ira Levinson, Chapter 17 Ira, p. 222-223
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Love , Life , Silence , Passion

“Follow your heart”

Nicholas Sparks

Anne Nelson, An Unexpected Visitor, p. 139
1990s, The Notebook (1996)

Heart