Nora Roberts Quotes
Nora Roberts Quotes
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Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.
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And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
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Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
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Each of my characters comes from somewhere, and where they come from, good or bad, has a large part in forming who they are, and who they can become.
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Every single book is a challenge.
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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.
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First, I really believe that since writer is a term without genre, a good one should be able to write believable male and female characters.
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I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
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I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
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I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.
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I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
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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.
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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
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I just don't depend on inspiration much.
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I loved the process of writing.
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I need to write to be happy.
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I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
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I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.
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I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
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I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.
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I've never felt category is restrictive.
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If a book's moving well, or I was interrupted over six million times through the day, I'll usually go back and write for another hour or two.
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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
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In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.
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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.
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My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.
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Now, I'll say this. I've never taking a course on writing. I've never read a book on writing. This isn't something that would work for me.
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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
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The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.
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What I write deals with relationships, with making families. It just follows that I would often write about family and what it means.
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