Books Quote by Leigh Bardugo

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs.

— Sylvia Day

When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that…

— Ted Naifeh

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

— William H. Gass

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

“Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it. The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as literature and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

That's a genre that we haven't seen much of for a while. Those action-adventure-comedy, but yet intellectual films.

— Ashley Zukerman

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

— Iain Banks

I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a…

— Marjorie Liu

I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed…

— Cate Blanchett

Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in…

— Leigh Bardugo

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

— Ira Sachs