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If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

Nora Roberts

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Nora Roberts
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
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I always thought everybody made up stories in their heads - never thought about actually writing them down on paper until I was snowed in with the kids in the blizzard of '79 - 3 feet of snow. I live in a rural area and was stuck. No morning kindergarten - it was a nightmare.
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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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What's your status? she asked him. Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours? Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.
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If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!
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You can fix anything but a blank page.
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You don't need to diet, She-Body. You are a just-right female. McNab? Eve said. Yes, sir. Shut up. It's all right, Dallas. We're a couple. A couple of what? No, don't tell me. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to each other. Let there be silence across the land.
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... a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.
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It's more than you think it can be, she heard herself say. It changes everything, and fixes everything that matters. Maybe you're never going to be the same, and maybe part of you is always afraid of what will happen if...but he's always going to be there. All you have to do is reach out, and he's going to be there.
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Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer. I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation, Flynn promised.
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My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time off to have some really good sex. It's not, 'Oh, thank God, this is book No. 250. I can die now.'
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It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.
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You are wise as well as short. I can also break bricks with my bare hands. That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.
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Every single book is a challenge.
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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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Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?
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I need to write to be happy.
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