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Nora Roberts [1950-0] American
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Nora Roberts is 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.


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