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I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Eleanor Marie Robertson
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Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
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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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Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].
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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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If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.
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I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
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She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.
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I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm. ----Roarke, Naked In Death
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Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.
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