Nora Roberts Quotes

You can fix anything but a blank page.

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come out quickly.

As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.

If you are stuck on a problem, go for a walk and think about something else for a little bit. Going for a walk is very helpful for a writer because if you are staring at a blank page of a computer screen there is all this pressure.

I'm not really worried about writer's block.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on. But routinely when I finish a book, I think, "What will I do? Where will I get an idea?" And a kind of low-level panic sets in. And then eventually something happens. I don't know. If I knew how it happened I would repeat the process, but I don't know - something just occurs to me.

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.

Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.