Nora Roberts Quotes
"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Expectations)
"I loved the process of writing."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Writing)
"I need to write to be happy."
- Nora Roberts
"I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Variety)
"I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Hope, Writing)
"I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Family, Thought, Career, Writing)
"I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Time, Being, Treasure)
"In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: First, Summer)
"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Love, Soul, Heart, Delight, Magic, Practice)
"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
(Related: Books, Right, Will)
"My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Life, Family, Sense)
"One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written."
- Nora Roberts
"You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Time, Job)
"I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more."
- Nora Roberts
"The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Character)
"Every single book is a challenge."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Challenge)
"I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Draft, First, Pretty)
"Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Family, Fun)
"And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Time, Effort)
"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
(Related: Plagiarism, Writing)
"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
(Related: Tools, Writer)
"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
(Related: American, Letters, Pretty, Rejection)
"I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Romance, America, Information, Support, Writers, Writing)
"I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Love, Word)
"I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Pleasure)
"I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Character)
"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
(Related: Internet, Now, Research)
"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
(Related: Love, Motivation, Action, Emotion, Writer, Writing)
"I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Change, Draft, First)
"I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Romance)
"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
(Related: Women, Romance, Fiction)