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I loved the process of writing.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
Author
Businessperson
Legal Secretary
Novelist
Philanthropist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
Sarah Hardesty
Eleanor Wilder
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Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.
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You all right? Diana let out a deep breath. Ask me again when I'm not praying.
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She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route. Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.
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Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.
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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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If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.
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I think she was the love of his life. When you've got one of those, it does stuff to you. It makes you think about them even when you're doing routine things. It makes you want to protect them, to make them happy and safe.
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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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I think things happen between people for a reason.
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Why are you always smiling? What do you know?
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Hey. Hands off.” , “Please. Please, please, soooo pretty. Lemme just have one little touch.” “Peabody, isn’t it embarrassing enough you’re wearing pink cowboy boots, again, without standing here drooling on my coat?”, [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]
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Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.
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I was just trying to get his attention! the man protested at the top of his lungs. If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.
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Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
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I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
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I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.
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Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
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Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the maybe's, the what if's, the probabilities spoil something so lovely?
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You love tests? Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
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