Top 1200 Romance Novel Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author. I feel as if the author and I are on the same wavelength mentally, that we have a lot in common with each other, and that we could have an interesting conversation, or even a friendship, if the circumstances permitted it. When the novel comes to an end, I feel a certain letdown, a loss of contact. It is natural to want to recapture that feeling by reading other works by the same author, or by corresponding with him/her directly.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

Ever since I was little, I've shied away from romance. It's not that I dislike women, but I'm not good with them.

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.

Romance, eternal love, exists in very few cases. And that's a reality you just have to accept.

I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

Romance is diffcult for some celebrities. If the media finds out you’re dating Robert Pattinson, you’re screwed.

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

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

One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

The audience always looks for a change. After a spate of action, and romance, now they want to laugh.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!

I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story.

It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

No offense to people who go on Tinder but I just feel like it's ruining romance, I really do.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea, have sputtered out and died by chapter three. For me, novels have invariably come from a complex of ideas that in the beginning seemed to bear no relation to each other, but in the unconscious began mysteriously to merge and grow. Ideas for a novel are like the strong guy lines of a spider web. Without them the silken web cannot be spun.

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

I always thought there was some romance to that '30s leftist stuff, even though I'm a Republican.

I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons.

On the Hugh Grant romance rumours: We're not dating and I'm not pregnant. We have not kissed or touched. We have not fought and broken up.

I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder.

I feel that there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into fantasy and there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into pessimism, but that, in fact, the novel as it has developed should, if it's functioning correctly, have equipped you as the reader to make your own decision about where you want to go with that, about where you're going to fall on that continuum. So, the novel is taking you directly up to the point that you have to choose, and it's letting you do that.

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'

Romance is about investing in the future - with older people, there is less time for happy ever after.

The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.

I see romance as a state of mind. I may find it in a candlelit dinner or by walking in the rain.

In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

'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.

The audience loved 'Aashiqui 2'. We are happy we could bring back the time of romance in Bollywood.

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

I am ready to work hard, do comedy, romance and action. Just give me that trust.

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

I am no more the 'chocolate boy.' Still, romance is always going to be a part of my life.

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

Romance and girls I don't talk about anymore: it's off limits. I just want to keep it private.

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.