Becoming Quote by Emma McLaughlin

That whole idea of chick lit being a thing that you just lump all the commercial female writers into - it went on for…

— Lisa Jewell

It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those…

— Nancy Pickard

People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book, you're never…

— Lisa Jewell

I don't think my first book was chick lit.

— Lisa Jewell

I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers? Writers of…

— Jodi Picoult

I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just…

— Mary H.K. Choi

“Finally, bookshelves can be a terrifying place for debut writers, especially those who are marginalized. Writers who are queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled, working class…

— Frances White

I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being…

— Tucker Max

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

“Everything We Keep wouldn’t be the story it is today without my first readers—Elizabeth Allen, Bonnie Dodge, Vicky Gresham, Addison James, and Orly Konig-Lopez—who…

— Kerry Lonsdale

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and…

— Kathleen Norris

I'm always fascinated by how different writers' rooms work.

— Megan Abbott