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

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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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Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.
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know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
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We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.
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What time is it in New York? He shook his head. An hour later than it is here. The earth simply has to revolve, Eve, however annoying it is for you. It can revolve all it wants. I just don't see why people can't settle on the same time.
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A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
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A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.
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Vending Machine: This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day. Eve: Up yours.
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Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now.
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We all look. The lucky find.
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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
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I loved the process of writing.
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love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.
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Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
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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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Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.
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Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two years? Eve: Think about that, then imagine it happening when I'm at the wheel at thirty thousand feet. Roarke: Good point. I'll do the flying.
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