“I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.”

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.