"I believe in books and their power to challenge, change and shape the human condition. I believe in romance novels for their insistence that yes, there is happiness to be found, even in a world as heartless and difficult as the one in which we live."
--Romance Author Diane Pershing

"Ours is the only genre that has said not that sex is important---everybody knows that.  And not that love is important---everybody knows that.  Ours is the only genre that has strongly, repeatedly and consistently said that women are important.  And not everybody knows that." 
----from a speech given by New York Times best-selling author Lisa Kleypas at the RWA National Conference in 2007

 

Favorite Works of Fiction (Of Course, They’re All Love Stories)

The Chicago Stars series by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Catherine Anderson’s contemporary romances, especially Only By Your Touch and Sunkissed

Anything by Susan Wiggs, especially Passing Through Paradise, The You I Never Knew and Lakeside Cottage

Anything by Nicholas Sparks, especially The Rescue

The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

Man with a Past by Kay Stockham

Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson

The Last Noel by Michael Malone

A Not-So-Perfect-Past by Beth Andrews

 

Other Favorite Quotes About Fiction and Books

"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little." --- playwright Tom Stoppard

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." –Cicero

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." –Stephen King

"A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists." –Anonymous

"Books give us wings." –Library of Congress, Center for the Book poster

 

 

   

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