It’s such a lovely feeling to be in love, to marry the person you love and finally to be with that person. I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids, etc. Love never ends, na?
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 have been driven by romance my whole life because I crave the intimacy that comes with that.
We’re definitely hoping ‘Travelers’ attracts more than just solely the sci-fi audience, too. There are so many elements here. I think this will be a show that women like, because there’s a lot of unlikely romance in it between people who were in love 300 years from now, but they’re in different bodies.
I want to play whoever is opposite ‘Iron Man.’ I want to romance Robert Downey Jr.
Sometimes I look at music as like movies. And so I feel like you can have your comedies, and you can have your dramas, and you can have your romances or whatever.
I don’t think there’s anymore chocolate boy left in me… Like, if I do the roles on the screen that border on romance, it will be age-appropriate.
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They’re absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.
As an actor, you want convince the audience that you can do different things. So, if I have to run in slow motion, I am more than happy to romance.
I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.
Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver’s license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.
I was never interested in roles where I would have to dance and romance heroines.
I haven’t always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I’ve come out of the closet.
At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people.
We’ve all known how to smile since the beginning of time. We’ve all gotten married since the beginning of time. We’ve all had romance, glamour, and splendor. Representing that is incredibly important, because period drama for people who aren’t white shouldn’t mean only spotlighting trauma.
I always thought that I had a pretty diverse body of work, I mean, as far as subject matter. Teenage rock and roll movie; romance; ’20s Western. On paper it looks different, but then there’s similarities in the vibe of them.
I have a huge promotion: you’ve heard from me on ‘Vantage Point’ and also with ‘Cyrano Fernandez’ – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it’s based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it’s set in a Venezuelan slum. It’s a free version of the French play.
I am a mix of both old classic romance and modern. I think it is up to what suits the two people in love best!
‘Dev’ is a love story but isn’t about romance. It is also about loving friends as well as family and loving every moment of life.
When it comes to romance, I’m really simple. I am really a ‘dinner and a movie’ type of person, and I love food, so surprise me and order something different or adventurous when it comes to food, and I’m like a kid at Halloween.
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
I’m a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love – and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
I think I want to do something about family or love or romance.
Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that’s it. There’s more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.
The romance that can never really gel because of the powers that be… that’s a great conflict.
I’m not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who’d owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
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.
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
I think anybody’s who’s ever traveled to Paris or any sort of older European city will get caught up in the romance of the history and the ghosts you’re surrounded by every day.
To be joining ‘The Hunger Games’ family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it’s well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn’t talk down to its audience. And then there’s the romance element.
You can’t sign on for a romance novel adaptation and then get prudish.
We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.
I’ve written 26 books and novellas as Molly O’Keefe. I moved through three different Harlequin lines and into single-title romance with Bantam writing under that name. Fun fact: It’s not my name, and it’s not even one I picked.
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.
For the most part, romance is written in third person, and it’s written in multiple points of view, so you’re in the hero’s head, and you’re in the heroine’s head. I’ve always said that I’m more of a narrator than a creator.
Romance is about investing in the future – with older people, there is less time for happy ever after.
The beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance.
I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.
In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It took me a year to complete the manuscript. I was a forty-year-old Scarborough housewife who knew no one in publishing.
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.
I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble… and drama. It’s either I’m working, or I have nothing to do but focus on my personal life. It’s a little hectic.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they’re afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won’t do that.
My favorite lesbian romance of all time is the 1999 movie ‘But I’m a Cheerleader,’ starring Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall. RuPaul is also in it; so is the brilliant Melanie Lynskey.
I feel like, throughout ‘True Romance,’ I was unsure of myself in terms of songwriting. Even though it was my voice, I feel there were a lot of other voices on that record, too.
People aren’t defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.
I want to remind the new generation about the power of old school romance.
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Good love and romance aren’t always what the hype cracks them up to be.
I’ll tell you what I hate – bands like My Chemical Romance.
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children’s literature and detective fiction, of modern adventure, mystery and romance.
My parents did not encourage romances.
The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
I love romance films, especially between people of color, because we don’t really explore that enough. I would love to do that.
My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with ‘Schroeder’ on the spine.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
I live with romance in my brain. I’m a true-blue Cancerian like that.
I write nothing but contemporary romances.
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves ‘Downton Abbey’ will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
