The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.


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There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japane...
ANN NOCENTI
If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altoge...
ANN COULTER
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career...
ANN OAKLEY
Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communit...
ANN COTTON
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of ...
ANN LANDERS
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
ANN LANDERS
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of al...
ANN LANDERS
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
ANN HOOD
On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women...
ANN CALLIS
Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the...
ANN ROMNEY
I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
ANN LANDERS
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give...
ANN VOSKAMP
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the sma...
ANN VOSKAMP
Any Republican who says he can work with Hillary Clinton is a traitor to the nation.
ANN COULTER
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arri...
ANN VOSKAMP
Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.
ANN VOSKAMP
I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.
ANN VOSKAMP
Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes t...
ANN VOSKAMP
A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.
ANN VOSKAMP
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting...
ANN VOSKAMP
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
ANN VOSKAMP
Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
ANN VOSKAMP
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creat...
ANN VOSKAMP
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I...
ANN VOSKAMP
My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the ...
ANN VOSKAMP
Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
ANN VOSKAMP
I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
ANN VOSKAMP
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, ab...
ANN VOSKAMP
When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catchi...
ANN VOSKAMP
Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you som...
ANN VOSKAMP
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create...
ANN VOSKAMP
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness ...
ANN VOSKAMP
Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. ...
ANN VOSKAMP
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a t...
ANN VOSKAMP
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect...
ANN VOSKAMP