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Romantic Quotes


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance."


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes."
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