Books Quote by Nora Roberts Download Open image “If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.” — Nora Roberts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Expectations Framework Knowing Reader Writing
Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it. — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't. — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words... — Roman Abramovich Copy Share Image
Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people. — John Legend Copy Share Image
“Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. At best, it… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I can't change the preconceived notions a reader brings to a work, but I can do my best to be aware of, address, and… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Why stop now? Seduce me, Brian.I dare you." "I've always found it hard to turn aside a dare.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“He's back in Maine now.She did say he badgered her with questions. Of course, she didn't have the answer until she spoke to me… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Every professor worth his PhD should have a fireplace in his study.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Sorry, bad wing." When Theo kissed him, surprise and pleasure flustered him. He couldn't remember the last time this boy, this young man, had… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“No point in wishing for what you can't have. - Blair What's the point in wishing for what you can and do? - Larken” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“I was going to make a confession. Then I remembered I don't make them very well. We still need to see the monkeys." "You… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image