It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.
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.
There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
There hasn't been a great romance in my life.
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.
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
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.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.
I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.
My contribution is the romance and the warmth. The love songs.
I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more profound and deeper because it is eternal is very powerful.
To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.
The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.
Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs.
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
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.
The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'
Workplace romances - or even the illusion of a workplace romance - can carry many ramifications and consequences.
In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.
I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.
Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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.
For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
