my favorite writer is nicholas sparks.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an American romance novelist, screenwriter and producer. He has published nineteen novels and two non-fiction books. Several of his novels have become international bestsellers, and eleven of his romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film all with multimillion-dollar box office grosses. Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska and wrote his first novel, \"The Passing\", in 1985, while a student at the University of Notre Dame. His first published work came in 1990, when he co-wrote with Billy Mills \"Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding\", which sold approximated 50,000 copies in its first year. In 1993, Sparks wrote his breakthrough novel The Notebook in his spare time while selling pharmaceuticals in Washington, D.C.. Two years later, his novel was discovered by literary agent Theresa Park who offered to represent him. The novel was published in October 1996 and made the \"New York Times\" best-seller list in its first week of release. Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31, 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska to Patrick Michael Sparks, a future professor of business, and Jill Emma Marie Sparks (n\u00e9e Thoene), a homemaker and an optometrist's assistant.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you know about Nicholas Sparks? I hear he wrote, \"The Notebook.\""}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I have seen the movie the Notebook. I understand he published 19 novels. Do you know how many were made into movies ?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I really don't because I'm not a 13 year old girl. Can you tell me about those 19 novels though before I see the movie?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, many were bestsellers, with 11 having been adapted mega $$ films "}, {"role": "user", "content": "There are a lot of movies that are megafilms that I don't consider that great. Have you heard about Star Wars for instance?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love Star Wars. I\"m not a fan of star treck though"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah I hear star trek is really just a bunch of space junk. They have the one man who plays Professor Xavier in X-men."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "William Shatner must be worth millioins by now lol"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah you could say he did really well that Shatner. He always had a nice smile."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It is amazing how shatner, like Sparks was also a producer and worth mega millions"}]