Is there a secret? Yes. Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James knows it. It is the secret behind all o…

- M.J. Rose

Sometimes love worked out, but more often it failed

- M.J. Rose

The owl is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so int…

- M.J. Rose

Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.

- M.J. Rose

The secret, which is not so secret after all, is that the people who we love live on in our hearts, in the beat of our blood.

- M.J. Rose

The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion…

- M.J. Rose

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

- M.J. Rose

‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.

- M.J. Rose

What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well.

- M.J. Rose