Book Quote by Margaret Atwood

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of…

— Stephen King

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

— Jennifer Weiner

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

— Donna Leon

“At its heart, Gothic Fiction is the introvert's "Hero's Journey" where heroes and heroines must navigate the uncharted territory of the mind in order…

— Barrymore Tebbs

“In most crime novels the violent act, usually the murder, is the engine. Take that away and there is little left to drive the…

— Mo Hayder

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

“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

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

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

— Ken Follett

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's…

— Gillian Flynn

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?

— Gillian Flynn

“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain…

— Roxane Gay