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A Q & A with author Nicholas Sparks
Q: What was your inspiration to write better than me?
A: I assume that the inspiration was twofold. He had been a long time I had done a "reunion" story (The Notebook), it was time to do something else. At the same time, I wanted it to be different from the laptop in almost any direction. At the same time, I wanted to write a novel about characters in their forties. At this age, people come to accept the decisions and choices they have made in the past. The Best of Me was mainly a combination of these two ideas.
Q: This book is about love for the first time, and how sometimes that love is so strong that it can pass the time and space, no matter what happens. Is this something you think?
: Yes, I think it's possible. First love is always strong, and some people who truly love last forever. The problem is, however, that over time, love is often romanticized. I wanted to write a novel that explores the concept as well. Neither Dawson nor Amanda are the same people who, when they were younger, and little by little, the romance of the story is reduced over time. For them, however, the new reality, however, left them feeling the same way from each other, as it once was. And yet, they fell in love again. Or maybe, phrasing it differently, they have never been in love before.
Q: The former lovers Amanda Collier High School and Dawson Cole again after 25 years, when his mentor, Tuck Hostetler, die and are reminded Eastern North Carolina for the funeral. One of the things that led Amanda Dawson and abroad is that they were on the other side of the tracks. Class differences are still part of everyday life in a city like Eastern North Carolina?
A: The class differences are not as powerful as they were, but are still common. I do not know yet if it is limited to places like the East, and I do not see it as complete and without doubt a terrible thing. People who intend to spend their life together they have things in common, and we like it or not, the class is and has always been part of this, and that shapes the people we are.
Amanda and Dawson - and many others in the real world, of course - class differences were less important than the similarities. None of them came with their parents, who were both intelligent, both had dreams, and over the years, had both disappointments.
Q: At present, it is easy to connect with people from our past through Facebook and other social networks. How many times do you think people are trying to find his first love in these sites?
A: It is very common. I know people who have become part of his past, and later the couple, but probably less common than just getting through the media to an old boyfriend or girlfriend just to see what is happening in their lives. I can understand the draw: the first love is powerful because it is the first time and is almost impossible to forget.
Q: When Amanda Dawson and reconnect, Amanda has been married nearly twenty years and it clearly has problems in their marriage. Having been married for 22 years, you, what would you say is the key to a successful marriage?
A: For each pair, it is different for each pair of facing different challenges, and each person has different capabilities when it comes to these challenges. The key to a successful marriage is to realize that the commitment you, even to each other is the most important aspect to keep in mind. The simple truth, if she really felt should be enough to make you realize that you can not meet this obligation in danger. If your partner feels the same way, would he or she is unable to meet this obligation is in danger.
At the same time, it is important to understand that all marriages go through difficult times. Nobody's perfect, after all. But if the commitment to each other - which sometimes requires a willingness to change - it really was, most likely, that marriage is a success.
Q: This book has a strong spiritual component to it. Tuck sees Clara, his wife died, and Dawson sees a man in a blue windbreaker, although he is not sure who he is and the reader does not find the way. Do you believe in ghosts?
A: I think so. I had an experience similar to that described Dawson: Sometimes I could see the inexplicable movement of the corners of my eyes. Fast moves, instant, disappeared before he could turn his head. If you talk to the owners of the house where the incident occurred, swear it was a ghost. Other events in this house long before the "ghost" - or what it was - was finally exorcised the building. But it's a longer story for another time.
Q: There is an amazing scene that takes place at Amanda and Dawson go to the cottage Tuck for the first time. It is very reminiscent of a scene that happens in the book. How about this book that examines the love of young people compared to middle-aged love, the book is closer in spirit to the laptop?
A: Without a doubt, it is closer in spirit - at least for most of history - from the laptop. I wanted to do just that. At the same time I wanted to do something about the story quite different as well, and I hope I did it so well.
Q: Tuck wrote letters to Amanda and Dawson, to be read after his death. They are intelligent and beautifully written. In this day and age of constant electronic overload, you lament the lost art of writing a letter?
A: I do. I love letters, as opposed to e-mail. But I'm old fashioned that way.
Q: Warner Bros. has bought the film rights to The Best of Me will be a producer on this film with Denise DiNovi. How often is an author and producer of the film version of a book he / she wrote? Is this unprecedented?
A: I'm sure others have served as producer of their work, and some have even asked. But it was something new for Warner to go with it - and buy the book - before I had written a single page.
Q: Of all the movies based on your novels is your favorite?
: I was lucky that all the films are well made and all have been successful, so I have a personal favorite. However, I can say is that time of day, the notebook seems more likely to become a classic.
Photo by Nina Subin
Product Description
"Everyone wanted to believe that the infinite love that was possible. He believed in her again when she was eighteen."
In the spring of 1984, students from Collier and Amanda Dawson Cole fell deeply, madly in love. Although they were from opposite sides of the track, their love for each other seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of last year ended, the couple broke unforeseen apart, placing them in widely divergent ways.
Now 25 years later, Amanda and Dawson recalled to the East for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, mentor, who once gave shelter to their secondary romance. Neither has lived the life they have imagined. . . and we can not forget the passionate love first time ever changed their lives. When Dawson and Amanda Tuck execute instructions left for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew - about Tuck, about themselves and the dreams they liked - was not as seemed it. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers to discover the undeniable truths about the choices they did. And during one torrid weekend, they will pray for the living and the dead: love can really rewrite the past?
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