Romance Novel Quotes - Page 2

• As for the military or service professionals, I have nothing but respect for them, but come on, when it comes to romance novels, we all know it's really about the uniforms and how the guys look in them!

  Jill Shalvis

  Military, Guy, Romance

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Romance, Too Much, Novel

  "10 Questions: Jourdan Dunn" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. September 25, 2012.

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• My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Romance, Bookstores

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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• My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Romance, Advice

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• We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Love Is, Thinking, Romance

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Writing, Romance

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• Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled. “With swords,” Kat purred. “It is a romance novel!

  P. C. Cast

  Men, Romance, Novel

  P. C. Cast (2008). “Warrior Rising”, p.106, Penguin

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• He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she didn't have to be embarassed by some supercilious male clerk in the bookstore.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Romance, Clerks, Males

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• I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beach, Book, Writing

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

  Isabel Allende

  People, Romance, Political

  "Author Isabel Allende". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2010.

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• Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.

  Meg Cabot

  Romance, Want, Reason Why

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Crowning Glory”, p.173, Pan Macmillan

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• His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight.

  Darynda Jones

  Reading, Fire, Romance

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

  Rachel Cohn

  Reading, Romance, Everlasting Love

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.135, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of copies and then you'll have the money to do the kind of writing you want to do"? I always say that I don't have the skills or knowledge to do that. It would be just as hard for me to do that kind of writing as it would be to learn how to do any number of productive careers that I can't manage to make myself do.

  Lucy Corin

  Writing, Skills, Careers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.' Caelen took a deep breath, like he was in pain, and stood up. His voice was low, guttural. 'I was hoping I'd get the chance to kill you.' 'You won't be killing anyone, you sad little emo git.' 'You've stood in the way of our love for long enough.' 'Just listening to you makes me want to top myself, you self-pitying Paranormal Romance novel reject.' Caelen glared. 'Stop insulting me.' 'Why? If you cry will your mascara run?

  Derek Landy

  Running, Girlfriend, Emo

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• When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

  Matthea Harvey

  Voice, Romance, Way

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

  Albert Einstein

  Writing, Romance, Novel

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• "The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

  Roger Ebert

  Book, Heart, Romance

  Roger Ebert's review of "The Lucky One", www.rogerebert.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Powerful, Lying, Heart

  Jayne Ann Krentz (1992). “Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance”, p.113, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• I don't write romance novels.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Romance, Novel

  Interview with Jana Siciliano, www.bookreporter.com. September 28, 2001.

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• 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.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Falling In Love, Caring

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• For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting.

  Leigh Michaels

  Romance, Comforting, Promise

  Leigh Michaels (2007). “On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books

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• If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are very, very short chapters." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

  David Levithan

  Reading, House, Romance

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• 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.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Book, Winning, Romance

  Jayne Ann Krentz (1992). “Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance”, p.5, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one of Gran’s old romance novels, where the damsel wilts into the arms of one half-dressed beefy guy while another stands by,casting her longing looks. Oh, the horrible choices a girl must make! I wished I’d had a moment to clean up. I was still covered in dried river muck, twine, and grass, like I’d been tarred and feathered. Then Anubis pushed past me and gripped Walt’s shoulders. Well…that was unexpected.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Past, Expression

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