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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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Eleanor Marie Robertson
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Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
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Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.
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I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.
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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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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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Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?
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The purest magic is in the heart.
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No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.
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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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Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.
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If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?
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My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.
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Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.
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I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
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You're the woman in my life,” he said. “Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way.
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