Nora Roberts Quotes

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• Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].
• If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
• Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of…
• Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or…
• I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest…
• Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....
• Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.
• I loved the process of writing.
• Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.
• Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
• You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.
• 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.
• Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.
• Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
• Every single book is a challenge.
• Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that…
• I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
• My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.
• Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?
• Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.

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