Nicholas Sparks recalls working with Miley Cyrus that left him in complete awe.
He tells PEOPLE that Miley wanted to act so much. In the past, he has worked with her on 2010 movie "The Last Song".
He said, "She preferred that it is just primarily piano because she didn't want like one of the old Elvis singing movies. She wanted to act, and I thought she did a wonderful job".
"So she had a scene where she had to play the piano. It looked tough to me, right? I said, ‘I didn't know you could play the piano.’ And she's like, ‘Oh, I didn't. I had to learn yesterday. It took me hours.’ I'm like, ‘Hours, to do that, what you just did? Hours? It'd take me weeks to do that.’"
"But she'sincredibly skilled and talented, and I know she works very hard at music".
"There are some young people that really just surprise you with their staggering talent, whether it's in the Olympics or whether it's in something like music. And it was pretty clear that she was really good."