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Charlotte Lamb [1937-2000] British
Rank: 103
Novelist


Sheila Holland, née Sheila Ann Mary Coates was best known under the pseudonym Charlotte Lamb as a prolific romantic novelist. She signed her novels with her married or maiden names – Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates – and under the pseudonyms Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy.


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I think printed fiction is what women read.
101
If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.
102
I think love is always going to be the most important subject for women.
103
I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.
104
War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.
105
A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can explain life to a woman and satisfy a powerful need within her. The need to love and be loved is vital to all human beings, but especially to women.
106
Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.
107
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.
108

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