Nora Roberts Quotes

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.

My books are written from the heart, to entertain: they're books I would like to read. Because of that, when I meet people who like them, we have so much to talk about!

Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

I love piecing together intricate thoughts that people find compulsively readable and they can't put down.

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.