Top 32 Quotes by Nora Roberts

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.

I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

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.

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

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

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.

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

I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.