Nora Roberts Quotes

As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

I think women love to read love stories.

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux were at the height of their historical domination. Without those women, I wouldn't be a romance novelist.

I write romance because I love to read romance.

I don't write romance novels.

I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

People will say, 'I really don't like romance,' or, 'I don't read it - at all!' So how do they know? Weirdly, I think that the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' phenomenon introduced women to romance who would never have read it. And that means that they then go on to read my books, and that would be great.

I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men.

I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.

Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs.

I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a journey together, and no matter how awful it gets, by the end of the book they'll be in love, with the probability of a happy ending.

When you first go out there, and you're speaking to people who don't really have any idea about the romance industry at all... they're like, 'Romance? Oh wow, okay, I didn't know people even paid attention to romance.'

It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.

I just have never got into reading.

There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.'

When I made the leap from category romance to larger single-title books, I was encouraged to make the book 'big,' and suspense was allowed. Over the years, I've been able to write the kind of books I love, with a balance of suspense and romance. How lucky am I?

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.