Quotes About Romance

We're always telling stories, we're supposed to be reacting, a man and woman on the ice, it's romantic.

The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.

When I read my own diary, a lot of those feelings came flooding back, such as the idea that the first boy you fall in love with will be your last. You can never imagine that you could ever love anyone else and that they're just the one.

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the more it has to be leavened with a sensual, all-consuming love story.

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don't the stories lack complexity? Don't the readers get bored?

Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men.

Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?

For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.

'Plum's are probably the funniest, but all the books have their own degree of humor. But if you're hooked into 'Ranger,' you're reading it for the romance.

'Mr. Majnu' is a modern and passionate love and he loves to be around girls, they love him too. But, I'm nothing like that in real life.

It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason.

Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.

Hugh Grant has that magic in real life, so when he's saying these lines, 'It's always been you,' it's just devastating.

Everyone can have a crush on anyone, be it on a real person or a celebrity.

I started at school. When I painted, all the girls would come and sit around me. I realised that this was a really good way to get girlfriends.

Every time I read it, I realised 'Bajirao Mastani' must be made. It's such a powerful screenplay.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

I don't like high concept movies very much, and the kind of scripts that I would occasionally get offered tended to be really high concept comedies or romantic comedies. I just don't like it. I like much more realistic movies with actual psychology and behavior in them.

I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.