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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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She doesn’t like you, McNab. “I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.
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It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson. But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.
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I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.
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Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many. I never thought about it quite that way. Well, you're a man. She gave his knee a friendly pat.
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Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now.
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[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.
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You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.
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It doesn't matter, that's the point. It doesn't matter that things don't always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. People matter, how they feel, how they connect. Who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.
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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
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If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.
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I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.
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I'm not putting up with this, she continued. You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done? Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.
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Survivors lived with their mistakes.
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I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.
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Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.
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Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie? Kiss a cow farm boy
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It's about us. It's about trust.
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...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.
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Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
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