Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts
Nora Robertsis an American bestselling author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J. D. Robb for the in Death series, and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the U.K. as Sarah Hardesty...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 October 1950
CitySilver Spring, MD
CountryUnited States of America
people dolls dead-people
Dolls are like small dead people.
book writing discipline
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.
writing pages blank
I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
sex love-is faces
Love is very funny business. And sex - well, let's face it, sex is hysterical.
discipline guilt educated
I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.
boys fire blood
I had the blood and fire rule when my boys were young. You know, unless it's blood or fire, don't bother me.
technology
What is technology?... It's another god.
poet said maggie
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.
romance lovely tears
The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.
sex book wish
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.'
writing knowing expectations
If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
coffee ifs
If you can't dance on it, it isn't coffee.
luck bad-luck determine
Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.
past pretending
Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.