We just talk about that, which is kind of an interesting collaboration idea.

Yeah, it wasn't.

It's probably different than the collaborations you've done.

And I'm not sure how.

But we had one of my people in Hollywood knew one of his people in Hollywood and Then they had one of those conversations.

We should get these two together and see if they want to do something.

And so we did.

How about publishing? Just your thoughts on publishing, the pros, the cons.

Y lo que estaba diciendo es que ¿Te sientes un cierto sentido de responsabilidad cuando escribes un libro? Por ejemplo, A Walk to Remember, o incluso The Notebook, o incluso Remain, cuando sabes que muchas personas que están leyendo esos libros están pasando por sus propios procesos de pérdida y el impacto que tus palabras en ese libro tendrán en el corazón y mente de esa persona? Ciertamente, ¿verdad? Sí.

trato de escribir una novela que creo que todos mis lectores disfrutarán.

Y así, si hay una escena que es particularmente triste, Trato de no ir por encima de eso.

Trato de dejar que el lector cubra los bloques y tal vez se distraiga de su propia experiencia para ampliar la emoción que esperaba crear.

Y eso funciona.

Eso ha funcionado muy bien.

Y es interesante para mí que cuando hablo con lectores o recibo letras de lectores, la mayoría de las veces recibo letras de personas que aman un libro en particular porque están pasando por algo similar en su propia vida.

¿Cómo decidiste hacer algo juntos? Alguien de mi equipo en Hollywood conocía a alguien de su equipo en

Sabes, yo...

Crecí amando leer, aunque nunca me imaginé a mí mismo siendo autor un día.

Simplemente parecía demasiado irrealista.

Y luego, cuando tenía 19 años, Estuve injurado, era un atleta competitivo, y estuve injurado, y terminé escribiendo mi primer novela a la edad de 19, y luego un segundo novela a la edad de 22, y ninguno de ellos fue publicado.

Ni siquiera los tengo más, nadie los leerá nunca.

Co-escribí un libro con un amigo cuando tenía 25 años, y incluso entonces no pensé que podría hacer una carrera de ello.

Y luego, cuando tenía 28 años, me senté y escribí The Notebook.

Entonces, ¿cómo decidiste hacer algo juntos? Alguien en mi equipo en Hollywood conocía a alguien en su

So this partnership might have happened over 20 years ago.

Yeah, it might have.

And it was funny.

When I think of Knight's work, sure, you remember the twists and everything.

But what I remember are really well-developed characters.

And I remember character journeys, right? I mean, if you look at The Sixth Sense, it's a journey of figuring out who you really are.

We've both been into trying to craft real people.

Donovan meets a young woman who challenges the way he sees the world.

(laughs)

... that's been fertilized, okay? And, and then the egg splits.

So we're not talking fraternal twins, two eggs fertilized.

One egg, and then it splits.

And then one egg goes off to be raised by one father, and the other egg goes off to be raised by someone else entirely different.

So, I wrote the novel.

I mean, I remember looking at the script or going over the script with him as he's working on them.

Mm-hmm.

going to come up with it.

Imposter syndrome.

Yeah.

And then eventually the answer comes.

So there's different ways to get through it.

And I've worked all of them in the past.

Sometimes I'll say, if I'm not sure what to do, I'll say, oh, I know where this chapter, this section ends.

talking.

Do you feel at all like that's what you're supposed to write or do you feel pigeonholed in any way?

Look, I write because I want people to read them.

And look, I know what my readers have liked, and so I try to write in kind of that.

But there's less pigeonholing than you'd think.

Because I try to make each novel very different, even though we know the idea is very simple.

It's a love story.

It's going to be set in North Carolina.

Nicholas, tell her what you were telling us, please.

Nicholas, tell her what you were telling us, please.

Well, when I first began writing, I, I ended up writing my novels, uh, in my spare time after work.

Usually in the evening I would write from e- 8:00 to 11:00 or may- maybe even midnight, and then I'd work my regular shift.

I'd also write one day on the weekend.

I had a wife and I had two young children at home, so...

And I really felt like writing was important to me.

I wanted to chase a dream, so I made time for it.

... you're welcome to.

How did that collaboration begin and what convinced you that it would work?

Yeah.

(laughs) It- it kinda began in one of those funny Hollywood ways, right? I had my agent in Hollywood knew someone at Blinding Edge Pictures, and they were talking.

They said, "Hey, we should get Nick and Night together." And I've heard that, you know, couple dozen times over the last 25 years and usually na- nothing ever happens, but this one, uh, came through.

We, uh...

A meeting was set up, and the purpose of that meeting was each of us was going to p- come up with an original story that would work as both a novel and a film and that would work for his audiences and mine, and we were going to pitch each other our stories.

And that was in May of 2023.

... to explore?

When you're, when, when the book is going to be made in audio book, do you have a say in who the narrator is?

Yeah.

I mean, to a certain extent, I do.

And they always ask me and I always say, no, I got a funny story about that.

I did it once for a walk to remember.

It was so funny.

I thought I was going to like go to this.

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