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Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.

Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'

The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their stories. It's been a largely female-driven world.

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

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