There’s a stigma that guys hate romance and hate love, but that’s not true. Look at ‘Iron Man.’ There’s a whole through-line plot about his relationship with Pepper, and everybody loves it.
I’ve actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy – a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it’s contrarian.
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
I cannot do the boy-girl romance, villains etc.; I cannot relish such cinema and I cannot make it.
Romance readers love a wealthy hero, and why not? There’s value in a man able to hire a helicopter, a coach and six horses, or a collection of werewolves to do his bidding – and the bidding of the lucky woman on his arm.
There are a lot of really good Punjabi films with great content pertaining to family drama, romance, and history.
There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.
My birthday is two days before Valentine’s Day so it has always been about that rather than romance.
My understanding of romance novels was that it was on the beach with a glass of rose.
I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because I don’t believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
When I was young, I couldn’t imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren’t out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient – permed hair, beige cardis.
Young women are still looking for a prince on a white charger to come over the hill or for Mr. Rochester to appear. We all pretend we’re right-on feminists, but underneath that, there’s still the bedrock of romance.
For commercial books in a genre, readers’ and editors’ expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers’ guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
It doesn’t matter which genre you’re working in, you try to find an honest relationship within that space, and say if it’s the romance genre, within that you have to find a story and characters that resonate with an audience.
The audience always looks for a change. After a spate of action, and romance, now they want to laugh.
It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it’s the romance writers you’ve got to watch out for.
If anything, ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
I am a family man. I do not want to be considered a womanizer or a ladies’ man. I do not want to be attributed to romances that I never had. And example for me is my parents, who have created a strong family for life.
Love is an action verb, and romance is the result of those actions.
The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them. Some of the romance is gone, but you learn things you’d never know just by dating.
I love romance. I think our skin clears up and we’re nicer when you are in love.
I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.
I grew up on rock and roll like My Chemical Romance, who were actually genuinely talking about and saying things.
People will say, ‘I really don’t like romance,’ or, ‘I don’t read it – at all!’ So how do they know? Weirdly, I think that the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ phenomenon introduced women to romance who would never have read it. And that means that they then go on to read my books, and that would be great.
I can’t write about NRI romances.
I will always respect the beliefs of fellow Christians who aren’t comfortable reading or writing explicit love scenes, but I believe romances are beautiful and spiritual books that celebrate the best of what love has to offer and mirror the love God has for his children.
Human beings enjoy the myth of romance.
Someone gives jewelry, and there’s a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I’m making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
I think it’s weird that we expect ups and downs in friendships, but not in relationships. It all has to be romance, romance, romance – but there’s two people and there are always going to be disagreements, and you have to work at it.
I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.
Deep down, I’m a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I’ll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.
I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Boring heroines are, in my opinion, the most common romance mistake. We loathe hanging out with women who define themselves purely through their relationships… why would we want to read about them?
I would listen to artists like My Chemical Romance, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Blink-182, Paramore… all these bands were so unafraid of being themselves. They talked about their problems and what was going on in their heads. It grabbed and latched on to me, and I felt like I could do that, too.
The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.
I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 … there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of ‘American Pie.’
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.
There is pomp, ceremony and romance as a behavior, and then there is love as a real thing that is felt between two people.
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.
I have this sense of independent heartbreak, of annulling romances before they get their feet off the ground.
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
All my films are, in some way, romances. But I’ve always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.
Tinseltown really likes to think that they have a handle on all things ‘love.’ After all, they’ve turned it into a billion dollar industry with romance films, trashy TV shows, and ‘who’s-dating-who’ tabloids.
I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.
I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance – where there’s mystery and intrigue.
First of all, the leads aren’t the kind of acting work that I like. The parts that are meatier are not the ones that have to have a romance.
To be honest, I chose romance because writing a book seemed so dauntingly long. I looked around for something short, discovered Harlequin romances, and decided to read a few to see if I could do it.
‘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.
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because I don’t believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it’s really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
I play Captain Lance Van Der Berg, who’s a Union captain who ends up staying with the Confederate family who’s been taken over by the army when they come into the city in Virginia. He strikes up a romance with the youngest daughter in the house, which obviously causes some issues for the family.
