So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him- go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.

He also donates his time to help coach the New Bern High School track team and a local club track team as a volunteer head coach. The show is based on a concept by Sparks and will be co-written by Kristin Hahn who co-produced the film adaptation of The Time Traveler's Wife; the show will be produced by Twilight producer Temple Hill. Sparks was raised Roman Catholic and is of German Czech English and Irish ancestry.

He has 17 publiNicholas Sparksd novels. Eight have been adapted to films including Message in a Bottle A Walk to Remember The Notebook Nights in Rodanthe Dear John The Last Song The Lucky One and most recently Safe Haven. Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31 1965) is an American novelist and screenwriter.