Karen Robards

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

— Karen Robards

My parents did not encourage romances.

— Karen Robards

I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and…

— Karen Robards

I write the best book that I can write each time.

— Karen Robards

The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted -…

— Karen Robards

“...as jittery as a caffeine addict outside a closed Starbucks.”

— Karen Robards

“He smiled then, a slow smile that sent the blood racing through her veins. Lora felt the throbbing inside her intensify until…

— Karen Robards

To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It…

— Karen Robards

“Over my dedad body, was his first thought. His second? No, over Carl's.”

— Karen Robards

I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get…

— Karen Robards

“Lora followed his eyes to the subject of their conversation. He was such a masculine man, tall and strong and sure of…

— Karen Robards

My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

— Karen Robards

You look beautiful sitting there spitting at me like a she-cat. All I have to do is look at you, and I…

— Karen Robards

“You got here in the nick of time," Johnny said, grinning insolently at him. "I was just about to start ripping off…

— Karen Robards

“The point is, we all come to forks in the road, and we all make our choices and live with them, for…

— Karen Robards

The good romances are as good as anything.

— Karen Robards

“Funny, she had always thought that thin, bespectacled, intellectual types like Brian attracted her. Lora had to smile at her own naivete.…

— Karen Robards

For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the…

— Karen Robards

I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'

— Karen Robards

I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a…

— Karen Robards

I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with…

— Karen Robards

“Lora…” Her name was a tormented whisper as he kissed her harder, fiercer than before, as if he was starving for the…

— Karen Robards

“I bet you make lists. I bet you get up every freaking morning and write down everything you have to do for…

— Karen Robards

“She kept her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.”

— Karen Robards

“You know what I used to dream about, in stir?" His voice was hoarse, the words low and fast and faintly guttural.…

— Karen Robards