Books Quote by J.T. Ellison

I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story.

— Megan Chance

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look…

— Margery Allingham

“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”

— Alain de Botton

“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.”

— Stella Gibbons

“All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point — a woman must have money and a room of…

— Virginia Woolf

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

“It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients.”

— Jon Ronson

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“That’s the only problem with novels,’ Mia said. ‘They give readers such high hopes that the real world can often be a bit of…

— Victoria Connelly

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay