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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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Nora Roberts
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Good fiction creates its own reality.
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My apartment's only about a block away. Isn't that handy. Fate, he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. Fantasic, isn't it? One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours.
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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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I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.” He closed the distance between them. “You’ll get used to it.” He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. “Why? Why am I the one?” “Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it.
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squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place
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Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music. Christmas carols pumped, full blast, into the air. She decided that people ran inside, ready to buy anything, just to escape the noise.
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Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.
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I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
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In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.
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I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline combine those and you'll be pretty productive.
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We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.
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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
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That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.
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I always thought everybody made up stories in their heads - never thought about actually writing them down on paper until I was snowed in with the kids in the blizzard of '79 - 3 feet of snow. I live in a rural area and was stuck. No morning kindergarten - it was a nightmare.
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It’s good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume,” she qualified, “but know. To be with someone, who even when you don’t think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I’m not going to look around the corner for what’s next.
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Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?
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No second chance? A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.
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I know you love me, but I don't know why. I look at you and I just can't get why it's me. Every time I get my balance, I lose it again. Because it shouldn't be me, and I think it'd kill me if you ever figured that out.
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Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.
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