Nora Roberts Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Nora Roberts

  Book, Best Effort, Effort

• 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

  Book, Reading, Stories

• 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

  Book, Home, Space

  Nora Roberts (2003). “Key Of Knowledge”, p.26, Penguin

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

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  Book, Dallas, Bite Me

• 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

  Jesus, Coffee, Book

  Nora Roberts (2003). “Key Of Knowledge”, p.81, Penguin

• I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what could loosely be called a colleague for cribbing my notes on a story and since the editor–who happened to be the asshole's uncle–took his word over mine, I quit." "To write books. Is it fun?" "I guess it is." "I bet you killed the asshole in the first one you wrote." "You'd be right. Beat him to death with a shovel. Very satisfying.

  Nora Roberts

  Uncles, Fun, Book

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

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  Book, Waiting, Twenties

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy”, p.69, Penguin

• - "Women should all move to Amazonia, or at least vacation there four times a year." - "Amazonia?" - "It's the girl world in my head, where I go when I'm annoyed with Carter, or just men in general. There are five shoe stores per capita, nothing has any calories, and all the books and movies end happy ever after." - "I like Amazonia. When do we leave?

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  Girl, Moving, Book

  Nora Roberts (2010). “Happy Ever After”, p.211, Penguin

• 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

  Book, Stuff, Desks

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

  Nora Roberts

  Laughter, Book, Vampire

• 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.'

  Nora Roberts

  Sex, Book, Wish

• In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.

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  Summer, Book, Firsts

• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Discipline

• Every single book is a challenge.

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  Book, Challenges

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

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  Flower, Book, Garden

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy”, p.110, Penguin

• Anything worth anything can be found in books.

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  Book, Found

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy”, p.42, Penguin

• I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do makes it a lot easier to work, every day, to face the tough spots and heel in for the long haul. Nothing against plans; they work for some people. But for me, if I'd been planning, worrying about numbers, trying to micro-manage my career, I wouldn't have focused on the writing. If you don't write, you're not read. If you're not read, you don't sell. So that's my Master Plan, I guess. Write the books, let the agent agent, the editor edit, the publisher publish.

  Nora Roberts

  Book, Writing, Loving What You Do

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