About Quote by Kate O'Mara

I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.

— Francis Ray

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

— Daphne du Maurier

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

“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

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

— Elizabeth George

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels…

— Anne Bronte

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

A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love…

— Charles Darwin

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

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Writing the book automatically made me accept myself and love myself more.

— Erica Mena

“When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat…

— Maya Rodale

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune.…

— Camille Perri