Nora Roberts Quotes

Don't give up on your own happy-evers.

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

You're excuses are so lame they're limping.

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

Can you stand a little closer?" "Hmm?" "You smell good. I like to smell you.

There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.

I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.

She's in love, and that makes her strong. She'll need to be." "What makes you strong, Mia?" "Purpose. Love never worked for me.

Life--you have to live it as it comes.

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.

squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

I need to write to be happy.

When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.

Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?

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

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.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

Dolls are like small dead people.

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?

There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.

You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.

You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

The simple and most complex answer is love.

Why would I kill someone I don't know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and havent't killed any of them?

I love you. I don't know when it started, years ago or weeks. But I know my heart's lost to you, and I wouldn't have it another way. You're what I want, all there is of you.

Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You hardly ever make the jump.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.