Captivating Tales Quotes

I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.

I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

I love telling stories. You know why I love it? Because people love listening.