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Romantic Quotes


"It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live."


"I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting."


"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."


"You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead."


"There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful."


"Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."


"The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects."


"Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one."


"I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not."


"I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming."


"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."


"I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you."


"Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant."


"I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking."


"I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic."


"I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them."


"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes."


"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."


"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes."


"I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing."


"The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story."


"There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too."
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