“I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.” WayWantFeelsWritingBookRomanceIntimate Author:Joseph O'Neill
“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.” ThinkingWritingSometimesRunningRomanceLeftSoundRoomsTypewriters Author:Gene Fowler
“I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.” ThinkingMenWritingBookFeelingsRomanceLiteratureAttentionSeriousStandardsCriticsBeachTopicsUnworthyAbout FamilyDouble Standard Author:Jennifer Weiner
“If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.” IfsWritingBookMightRomanceCultureNamesForgetLuckyPaperPopsListsIgnorantSpellsTopicsLitFascinationPop CultureChicksNew Yorkers Author:Jennifer Weiner
“I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.” WritingRomanceSexyEdgy Author:Simone Elkeles
“I write romance, women's fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women - books about relationships, books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little.” ThinkingWritingLittlesBookSometimesRomanceFictionLaughingCryFitUmbrellaMake You LaughMake You Cry Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty true in my books. I usually write a secondary love story, with maybe nontraditional characters. Sometimes I write older characters. I'm interested in female friendships, and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.” ThinkingWritingBookSometimesCharacterStoriesRomanceHeroFemaleLove StoryTraditionalHeroinesFemale FriendshipFamily RelationshipFriendship And Family Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.” IfsMenNeedsWritingTryingLooksDreamRomanceStrangeSittingStrange ThingsAll Alone Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne
“When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.” NeedsWritingRomanceCertainWishFeltNovelFashionMaterialsClaimsAssumingEntitledLatitude Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne