Nora Roberts Quotes

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

Frank Baum knew at once he had written something special when he completed 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'

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

I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality!

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.

'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years.

When I was nine, 'The Borrowers' was such a big series for me!

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian.

I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'

The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too; 'What Katy Did;' and 'Peter Pan.'

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

I love 'Year One.' I read 'Year One' over and over again.

I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that for an entirely different reason.

I read 'The Hobbit' when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. I followed it up with 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I still reread from time to time, but of the lot of it, I prefer 'The Hobbit.'

The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.

I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.

I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.

[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.