Books Quote by Francis Ray

I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to…

— Kate O'Mara

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

— Daphne du Maurier

I am a novelist at heart.

— Vera Nazarian

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought…

— Colm Toibin

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life,…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on…

— Adriana Trigiani

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

— Jennifer Weiner

“In general…there’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women…

— Anne Lamott

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When…

— Willa Cather

“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and…

— Leslie Fiedler