Nora Roberts Quotes

I never sought to be a pundit, or on TV, or a writer-it just kind of came to me. If you just keep doing what you want to do, you wind up doing precisely what you want to be doing. Don't resist how life bats you around.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

I came into the world at the right time.

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

The stories I most love are about the benefits of being blown off course.

I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.

I'd rather have luck on my side than anything else.

Every once in a while, it seems like the cosmos part, and something great plops into your lap.

I've had an interesting career, and I don't know if it was by chance or grace.

My film career was never planned.

Sometimes, lovely surprises come out of things going wrong.