Love and sadness are ‘two sides of the same coin’ for the bestselling author, who says his novels will always end with a sense of hope
When American novelist Nicholas Sparks sat down to write his latest book, he began with a single mental image: an old man, hurt in the forest, with his dog standing over him.
As he points out, a relatively low number of Americans read one book a year, but many more will watch a movie. “That’s great, because I write a story because I think it’s worthy of being enjoyed,” Sparks says, before adding that “while it reads very efficiently on the surface, a lot goes into a work of fiction like mine.
That’s one of the themes – how does one process grief? I’m someone who lost my mother, my father, my younger sister in a seven-year span beginning when I was 23. What I learned in losing those I was close to is that there’s no rule book, there’s no guide book, and people process grief in different ways. I have a brother, and he became very ‘live for the moment’ in the aftermath of these deaths.
Do you think your audience would forgive you if you wrote a book that was devoid of even a breath of romance?
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