- [on the type of heroes in his novels] I simply create the character your mother told you to be. Be honest, work hard, don't look down on others, women and children in the lifeboats first.
- I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
- Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
- I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
- Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible
- Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
- "I suppose I wrote this novel not only so that you could get to know my sister, but so that you would know what a wonderful thing it was that her husband once did for her." (About his sister whose story inspired him to write "A Walk to Remember".)
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