Adore Quote by P. C. Cast

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Francis Ray

I am a novelist at heart.

— Vera Nazarian

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought…

— Colm Toibin

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be…

— Diablo Cody

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

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short,…

— Tom Robbins

I'm very much a writer at heart.

— Jamelle Bouie

“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.”

— Roman Payne

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'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to…

— Lena Dunham