Nora Roberts Quotes

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips.

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.

I feel like with everything you do, everything you make, everything you experience, y'know, even the dumb stuff that you don't even really pay much attention to, like the mundane stuff that happens to you every day, it shapes the person who you are.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.

I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Nations, like individuals, are largely the product of their environment; and many of their characteristics, their fears and their neuroses, as well as their abilities, are conditioned by the impressions of what we may call their early childhood.

Everybody's past and history informs them.

I'm fascinated by the way early experiences haunt and revisit you, remain present in your life for decades and decades - they can even shape who you ultimately become.

Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.

We're all products of our own environment.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

My values are in my DNA and were shaped by my environment.

When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

Everyone is a product of their own environment, and that, I think, has actually been the key lesson for me.