Romance Quotes - page 13

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. (Ashton Kutcher)
Romance is a different word than sexual contact. View quote
Bill Cosby
I think everyone has their own version of romance like and I think everyone has their own romantic side. View quote
Britt Robertson
Every time you see a black romance, it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman. View quote
Bernie Mac
I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without. View quote
Vanessa Paradis
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. View quote
Virginia Henley
Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
Life with me and the Company has not been anything like happily ever after. Reality has a way of slow-roasting romance. View quote
Glen Cook
We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration! View quote
Debbie Macomber
In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present. View quote
Debbie Macomber
First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling. (Debbie Macomber)
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. View quote
Deborah Moggach
It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close. View quote
David Levithan
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality. View quote
David Nicholls
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself. View quote
Denis de Rougemont
You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear?" - Valkyrie Cain. View quote
Derek Landy
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. View quote
Janet Evanovich
Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important. View quote
Jake Gyllenhaal
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. View quote
Jayne Ann Krentz
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology. View quote
Jayne Ann Krentz
If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list. (Jennifer Weiner)
It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good. View quote
Gerard Butler
My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material. View quote
Jean M. Auel
The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward. View quote
John Turturro
Romance requires trust-and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance. View quote
Jordan Peterson