It’s true – women want the fantasy. So give them romance – but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.
When a girl first gets with a boy, that kind of romance makes you feel really giddy and happy. That’s what ‘DNA’ is about… Everything on the album is about our own experiences.
I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.
I have done comedy and romance. So I thought why not try negative roles too.
If you’re chained to a computer all day, you’re not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I’ve had a secondary career right along with my romance writing – cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick.
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
I am no more the ‘chocolate boy.’ Still, romance is always going to be a part of my life.
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?’ Someone should have given her another book to read.
Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.
I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you’re making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you’re someone who doesn’t cook, you can make a meal.
As a lifelong romance reader, it’s always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn’t happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms,’ named after a classical Chinese novel, and later ‘The Sims,’ a life-simulation game, and ‘StarCraft,’ a science-fiction game.
I find short, fast romances romantic. There’s a beauty to dark imagery.
I love ‘The Guardian’ series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
The best romance writers know there’s nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility.
I love romance and talking about love, and I think it’s one of the greatest things you can talk about.
I, for one, love kids in my romance novels. When done right, kids add so much conflict. Not just of the ‘interruption on the way to the bedroom’ variety. But conflict about commitment and insecurity.
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless ‘neo-Victorian’ novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene… that’s hard, because you don’t know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.
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’ve had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn’t a romance – with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader’s expectations going into the story, and that’s very hard to predict person to person.
I’ve always said a romance hero can be deeply flawed… as long as he’s willing to rush into a burning building to rescue a basket of kittens.
Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it’s always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine’s Day.
My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.
‘Crimson’ is written in a very particular style, and it’s very precise in the way it graduates into a gothic romance. The souls that will connect with it will connect deeply.
I am the king of old school romance.
Old-world romance underlines my relationships, even with my son and the dog.
I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances – on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.
My mom handed me my first romance novel.
I don’t know if this is because I’m a bit too old, but it is true that I’m getting insensible about romance recently. I’m very used to being alone now, and I don’t think that’s not half bad.
My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance.
Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance – a ‘good’ bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies’ man.
My favorite – my very favorite movie, which I suppose is a bit of a guilty pleasure in that it’s like, you know, every scene, you know, pushes every button, is ‘True Romance’ directed by Tony Scott with Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater, and it’s a fantastic, fantastic film, very violent, very romantic.
My life isn’t just one genre. It’s a romance one minute, an action movie the next – it’s actually rarely, rarely an action film, to be frank.
The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.
I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen some day.
I regard the ‘Descendants’ as a melodrama, and all scenes have been the trappings to increase the element of romance, I thought. In that sense, I am very satisfied and have great respect for the decisions of the writers.
I’m very fickle when it comes to genre. I read YA, non-fiction, mysteries, romance. I’ll read anything that comes with a strong recommendation.
If you have a good inner life, you don’t get lonely. I’ve got a good imagination. I don’t miss romance.
It’s almost like when you’re young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.
Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.
There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
With the release of her fourth album, ‘Red,’ in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.
I was 9 when I wrote ‘Fate Stay with Me.’ It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.
That’s what it is: a ‘Harold & Kumar’ movie is a romance between two best friends.
Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
I think one of the bravest things about the romance genre is allowing people a happy ending.
Yes, romance has found it’s way into my heart in the past.
When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: ‘Downton Abbey.’
When you are travelling, there’s romance, and there’s music.
A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it’s deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.
Irvine is such a safe, stable, planned community, and I’m a person who has a lot of inner longing for drama and romance. So I think in some way the structure of Irvine made me more creative because I had these boundaries, and I thought outside them.
I’ve got to believe I’m the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
I’ve had enough off-screen romances and now I’m happy being socially and emotionally challenged, on and off camera.
I’m such an avid magazine reader – music, art, beauty magazines – and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.
No matter how troubled a character’s history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What’s more, the darker the past, the brighter the future – and the better the read.
People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.
The good romances are as good as anything.
