Quote

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book.

Nora Roberts

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
Author
Businessperson
Legal Secretary
Novelist
Philanthropist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Silver Spring
Maryland
Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
Sarah Hardesty
Eleanor Wilder
World
Desire
Write
Finish
Makes
Finds
Book
Drive
Writing
Discipline
Going
Aren
Never
Writer
Time
Talent

More quotes by Nora Roberts

Image
Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie? Kiss a cow farm boy
Nora Roberts
Image
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.
Nora Roberts
Image
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?
Nora Roberts
Image
I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm. ----Roarke, Naked In Death
Nora Roberts
Image
There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
Nora Roberts
Image
It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.
Nora Roberts
Image
The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that.
Nora Roberts
Image
What's your status? she asked him. Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours? Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.
Nora Roberts
Image
I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.
Nora Roberts
Image
You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love's supposed to be scary. Because if there's no fear, there's no thrill.
Nora Roberts
Image
I think I've just lost five pounds in fear sweat. Peabody mopped at her face. Now I want a cannoli. I don't know why. With a laugh, Roarke shifted to grin at her. I'll buy you a dozen, precious. Cannolis, for God's sake.
Nora Roberts
Image
Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.
Nora Roberts
Image
I got you a present. Did you? It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work
Nora Roberts
Image
I don't think I am a traditional romantic who thinks about candlelight dinners and wonders if my husband is going to bring me flowers, though I'm delighted if he does. I'm more practical-minded. I find it incredibly romantic that my husband does the dishes.
Nora Roberts
Image
What was your secret? That brought another smile. Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance
Nora Roberts
Image
To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.
Nora Roberts
Image
Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?
Nora Roberts
Image
If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?
Nora Roberts
Image
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
Nora Roberts
Image
It's not an exaggeration to say that they saved my life. Ray Quinn, then Cam and Ethan and Phil. They turned their world around for me, and because of it, turned mine around with it. Anna and Grace and Sybill, Aubrey too. They made a home for me, and nothing that happened before matters nearly as much as everything that came after.
Nora Roberts