Quotes About Romance

We weren't big 'Notebook' fans or anything.

2021, I am noticing, I am doing a lot of romantic songs which are going to be nice and special.

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.

Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux were at the height of their historical domination. Without those women, I wouldn't be a romance novelist.

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

Here's the thing about romance novels: The moment when the hero and heroine discover that they're perfect for each other is often the moment when it's them against the world.

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

'To All The Boys' is one film amongst a couple other romantic comedies through the decades that promotes... I don't know what they're calling it. A modern man? A man that's more emotionally accessible and available and willing to communicate and actually care and nurture.

I've been told that 'Midnight at the Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the '70s.

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.

If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition.

I never have crushes, apart from my husband Michael, I guess, because I was obsessed with him, and I didn't speak to him for nearly a year. I kept going into the restaurant where he worked to look at him.

I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

'La Vie en Rose' is just about my favorite movie. Marion Cotillard, I'm so desperately obsessed with her work.

I love love. I'm, like, obsessed with it.