"All love stories end in tragedy": "The Notebook" author Nicholas Sparks defines his genre
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"All love stories end in tragedy": "The Notebook" author Nicholas Sparks defines his genre

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Nicholas Sparks has a talent for making you weepy. Sparks's fans agree — a recent Goodreads review enthuses that "The snot bubbles were bubbling the entire time I was reading this book." To do that, I said, "Okay, the most well-known story about that is really the Book of Job," so that's where the title came from. There's a line in the Book of Job about how your life is filled with uncounted miracles, so this one I entitled “Counting Miracles.” "I ask, 'What's your favorite book?' I say, "These things worked in the book, but they won't work in the film, so let's remove those, and let's change some things up."

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