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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
Nora Roberts
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Nora Roberts
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Eleanor Marie Robertson
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I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.
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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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Bite me. -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.
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I hate patience. Slows everything down.
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It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.
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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 all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need
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I want to see you again. He stopped, took her face in his hands. I need to see you again. Her pulse jumped, as if it had nothing to do with the rest of her. Roarke, what's going on here? Lieutenant. He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. indications are we're having a romance.
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Into the night, in the dark, he lay beside her, listening to her breathe. He knew the varied and sundry reasons a man would kill. But none were more fierce, none were more vital than to hold safe what he loved.
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I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked. I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed.
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He shook his head and eyed Roarke. You don't look like a cop. I'm not and thank you for noticing.
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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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Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.
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Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
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...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.
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I want you more than I should, she heard herself say. I have you less than I want.
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Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.
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Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?
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Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now.
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I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
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