"The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

Show me a sexual practice that involves ice cubes and hot sauce, and I will show you a sexual practice that would be improved without them.

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.