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  • He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she didn't have to be embarassed by some supercilious male clerk in the bookstore.

    Romance   Clerks   Males  
  • My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

    Mom   Dad   Book  
    Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.
  • I think it's just a matter of time before everybody realizes that I'm kind of a romance novelist ... that these are all stories about people kind of falling back in love or struggling with relationships. Even Fight Club was just a big romantic ending.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.

    "Neil Gaiman Writes a Final 'Love Letter to Batman'". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. April 21, 2009.
  • A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.

  • I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.

    Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.337, Simon and Schuster
  • Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled. “With swords,” Kat purred. “It is a romance novel!

    Men   Romance   Novel  
    P. C. Cast (2008). “Warrior Rising”, p.106, Penguin
  • I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.

  • A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.

  • We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

    Jane Austen, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.190, Ignatius Press
  • Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

    FaceBook post by Louis de Bernieres from Dec 18, 2011
  • I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.

    Beach   Book   Writing  
    Source: www.goodreads.com
  • Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

    Romantic   Sad Love   Art  
  • My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.

    "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.
  • I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

    Lying   Romance   Doe  
    Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.176, Penguin
  • When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.

    FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 27, 2014
  • When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

    Voice   Romance   Way  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • "The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

    Book   Heart   Romance  
    Roger Ebert's review of "The Lucky One", www.rogerebert.com. April 18, 2012.
  • The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.

  • Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

    Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.135, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.

  • One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.

    Witty   Writing   Men  
  • Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.

    Book   Winning   Romance  
    Jayne Ann Krentz (1992). “Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance”, p.5, University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.

    Janet Evanovich (1988). “Thanksgiving”, Loveswept
  • Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.' Caelen took a deep breath, like he was in pain, and stood up. His voice was low, guttural. 'I was hoping I'd get the chance to kill you.' 'You won't be killing anyone, you sad little emo git.' 'You've stood in the way of our love for long enough.' 'Just listening to you makes me want to top myself, you self-pitying Paranormal Romance novel reject.' Caelen glared. 'Stop insulting me.' 'Why? If you cry will your mascara run?

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

    Writing   Romance   Novel  
  • You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of copies and then you'll have the money to do the kind of writing you want to do"? I always say that I don't have the skills or knowledge to do that. It would be just as hard for me to do that kind of writing as it would be to learn how to do any number of productive careers that I can't manage to make myself do.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

    Romance   Three   Steel  
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