The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.
Nicholas SparksBecause publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.
Nicholas SparksPeople were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.
Nicholas SparksThe movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.
Nicholas SparksSome things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story.
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