Quotes from Nora Roberts

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.

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

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.

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

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

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

Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love. --Prince Carrick

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.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson." But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.

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

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.

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.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Life--you have to live it as it comes.

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

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

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

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

Life has very little even ground.