Top 1200 Romance Novel Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer.

The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to backpack after getting out of college. I hiked and did a lot of things nobody was capturing in art at all in India, so I wrote my first novel. It was a very, trippy, experience-filled novel, and it ended up doing very well in India because nobody was writing about that at that point.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

I love writing romance, along with science fiction and fantasy - and my books usually meld all three to some degree.

Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll be in awe. This novel rocks . . . In Girlchild Tupelo Hassman has created a character you'll never forget. Rory Dawn Hendrix of the Calle has as precocious and endearing a voice as Holden Caulfield of Central Park. When you finish this novel, your sorrow at turning the last page will be eased by your excitement at what this sassy, talented author will do next.

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

'Conexao,' which means 'connection' in Portuguese, is about exploring the more nuanced highs and lows of romance.

Everyone is worthy of finding love and enjoying escapist fantasies of a life of dancing, romance, and ambition.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.

French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer.

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.

India-Pakistan war and romance have always been sensitive issues for film-makers in both the countries.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

If we're ever seen having a public spat in a coffee shop, I think the concept of romance will die.

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.

Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader likes and relates to (2) overcomes increasingly difficult obstacles (3) to reach an important goal. The more important the goal, the stronger the novel. And the most important goal that any of us have is survival. That's why murder mysteries are more gripping than a story titled "Who Stole My TV Set.

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance.

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

There are a lot of really good Punjabi films with great content pertaining to family drama, romance, and history.

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

There is pomp, ceremony and romance as a behavior, and then there is love as a real thing that is felt between two people.

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

I think there is an insatiable appetite for romance and for love stories, which is partly why these books and movies do so well.

Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

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

Without Steve Jobs, you would have well-designed computers, probably open and not integrated, but they wouldn't have sex appeal, they wouldn't have romance.

No matter where I go, I actually have a lot of couples coming and telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance!

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never imposed the way I write a novel on my students. When I had students, I never said, "You should never start writing a novel until you have the last sentence." I never did that, and I wouldn't do it now, but people now seem so interested in the process [of writing fiction] that I have to constantly make it clear when I describe mine that I'm not being prescriptive. I'm not proselytizing.

When we are in our dorms, we watch romance movies and dramas. When a romantic scene comes on, we hold on to each other and scream.

Romance doesn't have to be portrayed physically. I love being part of romantic films, but I wouldn't venture into something I'm not comfortable with.

Girls may love movies about fairytale princes, but their most captivating romance is with their friends.

Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.

But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.