Nicholas Sparks: Capture the Voice

Literally! With Rob Lowe

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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It's all about the written word when Nicholas Sparks joins Rob Lowe. On this episode you'll hear how Nicholas' writing process differs from most authors, his new book Dreamland, what happens when a book is turned into a movie, and both Rob and Nicholas swap Stephen King stories. Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at (323) 570-4551. Yours could get featured on the show!

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0:00.0	Hey, Nicholas, how are you? I'm doing fantastic. How are you doing? I'm good. Now where are you right now?
0:04.3	I am in Newborn, North Carolina where I live. I love North Carolina
0:21.1	Hello literally listeners. It is your host. It is me. I'm really really fun one today you guys
0:28.0	Nicholas sparks the legendary author. He's so legendary and so specific in his
0:35.4	success that you could say the phrase, I feel like I'm living in a Nicholas
0:39.5	Sparks book today. That's how you know, right? You know it's like I feel like I'm
0:45.3	living in a Stephen King book. Like there are just certain people out there that have had so much success.
0:51.0	They do what they do so well that it's become a thing and he's certainly one of them and it's
0:56.2	certainly started with for me the notebook, holy moly, but you know he's done dear John,
1:02.4	Knights of her Dancy, the choice, a walk to remember, message in a bottle. I mean on and on and
1:10.0	on. Pick your pick your favorite thing and in an amazing fact it's come to my attention that this
1:15.2	is the first time Nicholas Sparks has ever been on a podcast anywhere. So it is a tremendous honor.
1:24.3	Let's see how he does. I think you're living the dream. Yeah, I was a young guy living in California.
1:36.4	You largely grew up in California and I was married back then and I had child and I remember
1:42.5	my wife at the time she said I don't want to work you know when the babies are little. I said okay
1:47.6	you know I was in sync with that and so we just said well we got to move someplace cheaper than
1:53.2	California because back in even 1992 it was expensive. If you're just a sales rep or pharmaceutical
1:59.0	rep you know our in 30, 40,000 years it was expensive. I interest rates were much higher than
2:04.3	than they are now. So anyway we picked five states based on weather because I hated the snow,
2:10.9	didn't want the desert, you know didn't want to live in Texas, didn't want the endless rain
2:15.1	of the northwest. So we picked South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky
2:20.6	and my company had an opening in a territory in eastern North Carolina and so we moved to your
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