“She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.”

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.