Being Quote by Marian Keyes

I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write…

— Sophie Kinsella

That whole idea of chick lit being a thing that you just lump all the commercial female writers into - it went on for…

— Lisa Jewell

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might…

— Jennifer Weiner

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when…

— Sophie Kinsella

What I find weird is that the term 'chick lit' is used to encompass literally anything a woman writes about relationships. It's the assumption…

— Jane Fallon

“My work has often been described as “chick lit” and for the most part the term doesn’t bother me. I think it simply signals…

— Emily Giffin

It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny…

— Jennifer Weiner

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

— Philip Roth

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is…

— Mary McCarthy

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

— William Landay

I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being…

— Tucker Max