Charlotte Lamb Quotes & Sayings

Maybe our marriage is bound to be a fight, but it will have its compensations. Fights that end in bed have their own singular excitement, remember. — Charlotte Lamb

It was a truism that people always hated those they had wronged, even if they were prepared to forgive anyone who wronged them. — Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station! — Charlotte Lamb

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. — Charlotte Lamb

she was clinging ivy, she needed people to hold her up. — Charlotte Lamb

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. — Charlotte Lamb

You are as ordinary as spring,' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down her neck. 'And when I touch you, I burn,' he said, making her heart stop and a flare of wild panic light inside her. He was too close; he was getting to her. — Charlotte Lamb

People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing. — Charlotte Lamb

I don't care much for diamonds,' Nicola had told him.
'Have you ever been offered any?' he had asked, and he had been making fun of her, his face mocking.
'Not that I can remember,' Nicola had admitted calmly.
'And how would an offer be received?' he had asked, as though he knew the answer.
'With a kick in the teeth,' Nicola had said, meeting his eye. — Charlotte Lamb

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

I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born? — Charlotte Lamb

I think love is always going to be the most important subject for women. — Charlotte Lamb

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. — Charlotte Lamb

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars. — Charlotte Lamb

When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others
using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers. — Charlotte Lamb

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. — Charlotte Lamb

I think printed fiction is what women read. — Charlotte Lamb

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn. — Charlotte Lamb

I'll never go. How can I? How far would I get without my heart? — Charlotte Lamb

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. — Charlotte Lamb