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Mar. 21st, 2010 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Nicholas Sparks is a pretentious douche.
I can't believe how bafflingly arrogant this guy is about his mediocre books. Putting yourself in the company of Shakespeare, Jane Austin, and Hemingway?
"I'm going to interrupt you there. There's a difference between drama and melodrama; evoking genuine emotion, or manipulating emotion. It's a very fine eye-of-the-needle to thread. And it's very rare that it works. That's why I tend to dominate this particular genre. There is this fine line. And I do not verge into melodrama. It's all drama. I try to generate authentic emotional power."
Jesus Christ STFU. Like we don't already have ample evidence of the fact that a bestseller does not a good (or even decent) novel make.
I also like how fucking insecure he is about being called a "romance" author, and that the writer of the article keeps mentioning that he likes to "watch football", etc.
Just read the interview. There isn't much else I can add to it.
I can't believe how bafflingly arrogant this guy is about his mediocre books. Putting yourself in the company of Shakespeare, Jane Austin, and Hemingway?
"I'm going to interrupt you there. There's a difference between drama and melodrama; evoking genuine emotion, or manipulating emotion. It's a very fine eye-of-the-needle to thread. And it's very rare that it works. That's why I tend to dominate this particular genre. There is this fine line. And I do not verge into melodrama. It's all drama. I try to generate authentic emotional power."
Jesus Christ STFU. Like we don't already have ample evidence of the fact that a bestseller does not a good (or even decent) novel make.
I also like how fucking insecure he is about being called a "romance" author, and that the writer of the article keeps mentioning that he likes to "watch football", etc.
Just read the interview. There isn't much else I can add to it.
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Date: 2010-03-22 06:51 am (UTC)His novels looked boring in the store. I am somehow unsurprised.
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Date: 2010-03-22 05:25 pm (UTC)HATERS GONNA HATE.
But yeah. Lol Nicholas Sparks. Looollllll
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Date: 2010-03-22 05:48 pm (UTC)Also, I was betting that the link would lead to "The DaVinci Code". Well played, well played.
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Date: 2010-03-22 08:02 pm (UTC)Then you are not writing, sir. At least not "literature".
I prefer "Easy reading is damn hard writing." --Nathaniel Hawthorne
I'm glad you posted this. I needed some humor. :P
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Date: 2010-03-22 11:29 pm (UTC)I hate when popular authors think they are freaking gods because the masses like their books. When they are still teaching your book five hundred years from now in schools around the world, then you can quite possibly be considered among the literary gods.
Sorry, caffeine deprived and going on tangents is not a good combo.
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Date: 2010-03-22 11:54 pm (UTC)Also, hang on:
"No, it's the difference between Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet," he says. "(Romances) are all essentially the same story: You've got a woman, she's down on her luck, she meets the handsome stranger who falls desperately in love with her, but he's got these quirks, she must change him, and they have their conflicts, and then they end up happily ever after."
Didn't Stephanie Meyer also put herself in the company of Shakespeare and Emily Bronte???
I've put so much hate in Meyers' work, it's going to be so exhausting for me to hate someone new again. :(