110+ Nora Roberts Quotes On Writing, Romantic And Suspenseful

Nora Roberts is an American author of more than 200 romance, suspense, and fantasy novels. She is one of the most successful and widely read authors of all time, with over 500 million copies of her books sold worldwide. She is also known for writing under the pseudonym J.D. Robb. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Nora Roberts on writing, romantic, suspenseful.

Top 10 Nora Roberts Quotes

1. If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
2. Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many." " I never thought about it quite that way." Well, you're a man. " She gave his knee a friendly pat.
3. Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.
4. Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.
5. Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
6. Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
7. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
8. 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.
9. It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.
10. People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

Nora Roberts Short Quotes

• The wounded recognized the wounded.
• If you don't ask, the answer is always no.
• Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
• You can fix anything but a blank page.
• When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.
• If you do not step forward you will always remain where you are.
• You're going to blow his socks off!
• I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.
• You can't edit a blank page
• It looks like Armani and Cartier went to war.

Nora Roberts Quotes About Writing

I need to write to be happy. — Nora Roberts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nora Roberts Quotes About Write

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them. — Nora Roberts

I loved the process of writing. — 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 don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a craft. And if you write crap, you're still writing. — Nora Roberts

I always thought everybody made up stories in their heads - never thought about actually writing them down on paper until I was snowed in with the kids in the blizzard of '79 - 3 feet of snow. I live in a rural area and was stuck. No morning kindergarten - it was a nightmare. — Nora Roberts

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

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. — Nora Roberts

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one. — Nora Roberts

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure. — Nora Roberts

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts Quotes About Story

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

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

A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours. — Nora Roberts

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character. — Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts Quotes About Read

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres. — Nora Roberts

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion. — Nora Roberts

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer. — Nora Roberts

Told you not to tell her.” “That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship.” “Build a relationship.” Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. “You've been reading again.” “Blow me. — Nora Roberts

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. — Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts Quotes About Book

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

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment. — Nora Roberts

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. — Nora Roberts

Every single book is a challenge. — Nora Roberts

In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book. — Nora Roberts

He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books." ~Eternity in Death — Nora Roberts

Anything worth anything can be found in books. — Nora Roberts

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books. — Nora Roberts

She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration. — Nora Roberts

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

Nora Roberts Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you. — Nora Roberts

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it. — Nora Roberts

Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs. — Nora Roberts

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

Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You’re not ready for it, but if you’re lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you’d planned. — Nora Roberts

Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole. — Nora Roberts

No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it. — Nora Roberts

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain. — Nora Roberts

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little. — Nora Roberts

And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel—” “I’m not sleeping with Laurel. We’re dating.” “Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs.” “For a while. Minus the singing. — Nora Roberts

I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give. — Nora Roberts

Everything I know, I learned from dogs. — Nora Roberts

Body adornments show that we're aware of our bodies and expect others to be aware as well. — Nora Roberts

Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world. — Nora Roberts

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

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. — Nora Roberts

You're excuses are so lame they're limping. — Nora Roberts

When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way. — Nora Roberts

There are no dead ends, just detours. — Nora Roberts

Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two years? Eve: Think about that, then imagine it happening when I'm at the wheel at thirty thousand feet. Roarke: Good point. I'll do the flying. — Nora Roberts

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death) — 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

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

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

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

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

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

There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball. — Nora Roberts

I want to see you again." He stopped, took her face in his hands. "I need to see you again." Her pulse jumped, as if it had nothing to do with the rest of her. "Roarke, what's going on here?" "Lieutenant." He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. "indications are we're having a romance. — Nora Roberts

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. — Nora Roberts

-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave. — Nora Roberts

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. — Nora Roberts

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

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

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk. — Nora Roberts

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. — Nora Roberts

No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret. — Nora Roberts

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

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

Eve: "What do you want?" Nadine: "A man of amazing sexual prowess, great sensitivity, stupendous abs, and the face of an angel. Toss in a wicked sense of humor and stupendous wealth, who adores the very ground I walk on. Oh wait, you already have him. — Nora Roberts

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. — Nora Roberts

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

I know you love me, but I don't know why. I look at you and I just can't get why it's me. Every time I get my balance, I lose it again. Because it shouldn't be me, and I think it'd kill me if you ever figured that out. — Nora Roberts

If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it. — Nora Roberts

Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army? Talk about delusions of grandeur. What are you?” she asked Glenna. “Witch.” “So, we’ve got a witch, a sorcerer, a couple of refugees from Geall and a vampire. Some army. — Nora Roberts

Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything. — Nora Roberts

And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue. — Nora Roberts

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

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. — Nora Roberts

Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me. — Nora Roberts

The simple and most complex answer is love. — Nora Roberts

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

For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled. Since he was asleep, she stroked his hair. "I love you," she murmured. "I love you so much, I'm stupid about it." With a sigh, she settled down, closed her eyes, and willed her mind to empty. Beside her, Roarke smiled into the dark. He never slept first. — Nora Roberts

I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm. — Nora Roberts

[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up. — Nora Roberts

I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant. — Nora Roberts

The most important thing is you can't write what you wouldn't read for pleasure. It's a mistake to analyze the market thinking you can write whatever is hot. You can't say you're going to write romance when you don't even like it. You need to write what you would read if you expect anybody else to read it. — Nora Roberts

Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful. — Nora Roberts

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance. — Nora Roberts

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other. — Nora Roberts

...those who love suffer when who they love suffers. — Nora Roberts

Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone? — Nora Roberts

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men. — Nora Roberts

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

What about your crepe?" "Stuff It." "She's crazy about you," Mavis commented. "It's almost embarrassing, the way she fawns. — Nora Roberts

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

You have to trust or you're only living half a life. — Nora Roberts

Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished. — Nora Roberts

I think she was the love of his life. When you've got one of those, it does stuff to you. It makes you think about them even when you're doing routine things. It makes you want to protect them, to make them happy and safe. — Nora Roberts

"Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept her lips tight together and she curved them up. "You know they've got teeth in there. Big, sharp, shiny teeth." "I didn't. But now I've got to worry about it." — Nora Roberts

Life Lessons by Nora Roberts

1. Nora Roberts teaches us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult they may seem. She also encourages us to take risks and be creative in our writing. Lastly, she shows us that success comes from hard work and dedication.