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Nora Roberts

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Every single book is a challenge.
Nora Roberts
I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
Nora Roberts
I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
Nora Roberts
I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.
Nora Roberts
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
Nora Roberts
know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
Nora Roberts
Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.
Nora Roberts
Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.
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Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts
I think those who have impact and influence over us are often unaware.
Nora Roberts
Two women cant share a house comfortably no matter how fond they might be of each other. Its got to be one womans kitchen.
Nora Roberts
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
Nora Roberts
If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
Nora Roberts
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
Nora Roberts
Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.
Nora Roberts
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
Nora Roberts
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
Nora Roberts
Knowing isn't always believing.
Nora Roberts
Be yourself. Be true to that to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.
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I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
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Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.
Nora Roberts
When something comes easy you usually let it go the same way.
Nora Roberts
In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.
Nora Roberts
For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.
Nora Roberts
The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.
Nora Roberts
I loved the process of writing.
Nora Roberts
I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.
Nora Roberts
One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Nora Roberts
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
Nora Roberts
I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
Nora Roberts
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
Nora Roberts
You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.
Nora Roberts
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
Nora Roberts
A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
Nora Roberts
We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.
Nora Roberts
I need to write to be happy.
Nora Roberts
I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.
Nora Roberts
My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.
Nora Roberts
I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.
Nora Roberts
Good fiction creates its own reality.
Nora Roberts
You cant just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work take the risks.
Nora Roberts
I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.
Nora Roberts
And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
Nora Roberts
If people let other people alone people would be better off. Its always people that screw things up for people anyway.
Nora Roberts
Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.
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I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.
Nora Roberts
I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
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Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
Nora Roberts
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
Nora Roberts
Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly.
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