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I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen.” “Oh! My desk. I could’ve sat at my desk. I could’ve sat at your desk.” “No.” “It’s a vid set.” “Even then, no.
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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
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Peabody, you never cease to amaze me. One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers. Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime. Not in her lifetime last month. All at the same time. Peabody glanced up, deadpan. She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.
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Couples take care of each other, Clare, that's what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them.
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You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls. It's not a fashion accessory.
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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
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I have to say you don't look anything like a policewoman. Maxia's perfect eyebrows arched as she gave Eve's dress a quick scan. Leonardo dresses you, doesn't he? No, I usually do it myself.
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And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.
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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
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You can't edit a blank page
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There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.
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You can fix anything but a blank page.
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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 work.
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She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.
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What was your secret? That brought another smile. Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance
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A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book.
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Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished.
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Love meant different things to different people.
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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 had the blood and fire rule when my boys were young. You know, unless it's blood or fire, don't bother me.
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Life has very little even ground.
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The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?
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