Aren’t most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
Nora Roberts
In the summer of ’80, Silhouette bought my first book.
Nora Roberts
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts
I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
Nora Roberts
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I’ve ever faced since I started writing.
Nora Roberts
I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.
Nora Roberts
I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.
Nora Roberts
I read a lot – and I read a variety of genres.
Nora Roberts
You don’t find time to write. You make time. It’s my job.
Nora Roberts
I don’t fiddle or edit or change while I’m going through that first draft.
Nora Roberts
Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.
Nora Roberts
I don’t believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn’t read for pleasure.
Nora Roberts
Every writer has to figure out what works best – and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
Nora Roberts
I’d always loved to read – and come from a family of readers – but I never thought about writing as a career.
Nora Roberts
I loved the process of writing.
Nora Roberts
I decided to write category romance as I’d recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
Nora Roberts
For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected – the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.
Nora Roberts
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
Nora Roberts
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.
Nora Roberts
I’ve gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I’ve spent with them.
Nora Roberts
I don’t think you can write – at least not well – if you don’t love stories, love the written word.
Nora Roberts
One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Nora Roberts
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.
Nora Roberts
If you write in category, you write knowing there’s a framework, there are reader expectations.
Nora Roberts
Every single book is a challenge.
Nora Roberts
And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
Nora Roberts
I need to write to be happy.
Nora Roberts
My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.
Nora Roberts
I generally write a first draft that’s pretty lean. Just get the story down.
Nora Roberts
I would hope that my writing’s cleaner than it was when I started.
Nora Roberts
I don’t base any character on a real person, and really don’t do composites either. I make them up.
Nora Roberts
The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.
Nora Roberts