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

— Nora Roberts

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I loved the process of writing. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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I need to write to be happy. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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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. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

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I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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She opened her eyes once again and let them drift across the scene laid out before her like a page from a storybook. Inky blackness hung above them as though painted in impasto in an opaque Prussian Blue. The impression it gave was of a sky hand-crafted out of felt with a pearl of a moon and a generous dusting of diamonds sprinkled on for the stars. A night dreams were made of. ↗

— Ella J. Fraser

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