“He wanted to say that all this talk of feelings was irrelevant. Thatemotions come and go and can't be controlled, so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”

American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer

Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. He is known for bestselling popular fiction, and for work that has reached a wide international audience. He has 289 quotes on the site. He has published 24 novels and two works of nonfiction. Sixteen of the novels became New York Times bestsellers, and his books have sold more than 130 million copies worldwide in more than 50 languages. Several of his works, including The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle, were adapted into feature films, along with eight other books.