Nora Roberts Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Nora Roberts

  Jobs, Writing, Making Time

• 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

  Motivational, Writing, Character

• You can fix anything but a blank page.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Pages, Blank Pages

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

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Pages, Blank

• 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

  Art, Block, Believe

  Source: www.npr.org

• I need to write to be happy.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Needs, Literature

  "Nora Roberts on her MacGregor Series". Interview with Linda Mowery, allaboutromance.com.

• I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Romance, Literature

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

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Knowing, Expectations

• I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Cleaners

  "Nora Roberts on her MacGregor Series". Interview with Laurie Likes Books and Linda Mowery, allaboutromance.com.

• I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Careers, Reader

• 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

• So, you’re hitting on Clare the Fair.” “I’m not hitting on her. I’m exploring the possibility of seeing her on social terms.” “He’s hitting on her,” Owen said around a mouthful of chips. “You’ve still got that thing you had for her back in high school. Are you still writing bad song lyrics about heartbreak?” “Suck me. And they weren’t that bad.” “Yeah, they were,” Ryder disagreed. “But at least now we don’t have to listen to you playing your keyboard and howling them down the hall.

  Nora Roberts

  Song, Writing, School

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Next Always”, p.66, Penguin

• 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

  Writing, Pleasure, Wells

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

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Writing, America

• 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

  Writing, Important, Pages

• 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

• 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

  Writing, Pages, Blank

• 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

  Writing, Plagiarism, Difficult

• 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

  Book, Writing, Discipline

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

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Laptops

• 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

  Morning, Kids, Writing

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Author Nora Roberts (aka JD Robb) On J.D. Salinger". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 25, 2017.

• I loved the process of writing.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Process

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

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Writing, Literature

• 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

  Mistake, Writing, Thinking

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