"Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film."

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I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.

— Nicholas Sparks