Books Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is almost impossible to get a novel printed in an English journal unless it is warranted to contain nothing at all to which…

— Grant Allen

At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers…

— Thucydides

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

— H. L. Mencken

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much…

— Neil Gaiman

“You see, writers traveling to Southeast Asia visit indigenous communities. No writing quest will be complete without some cross-cultural comparisons. This exercise is a…

— Merlin Franco

I write nothing but contemporary romances.

— Chuck Palahniuk

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary…

— Helen Dunmore

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“Tim says he never suggested a historical romance. If I did write one nobody would read it. But why not try my hand at…

— D.E. Stevenson

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik