Top 100 Quotes About Love Novels
#1. I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.
John Logan
#2. Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.
David Liss
#3. It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
Jane Campion
#4. Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
Alexandre Dumas
#5. There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filtered through the consciousness of a single 'reliable' narrator, I often wonder, is this the whole story? What could be missing here?
Susan Barker
#6. Angel blinked hard and bit her lip, trying to stop the quivering of her chin. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for him, waited to get to this point where I could appreciate and value him most.
Linda Winfree
#7. For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer ... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.
Jess Walter
#8. ..love is as complex an emotion as exists. There are many reasons why love does not prosper.
.. the waters are perilous, and you would do well to know that, because unlike your novels, not every story has a happy ending.
Mary Lydon Simonsen
#9. You won't always have the luxury of a second chance. So be careful with your first one.
Donna Kauffman
#10. You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning.
Richard Kronick
#11. On the contrary, I think making you happy should be taken very seriously.
Drea Damara
#12. I couldn't shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary.
Nicole Gulla
#13. Helena had been standing by her window looking out to sea, breathing in the fresh air and admiring the picturesque scene of a small ship sailing into the harbor.
She had not been able to think of anything other than Mikolas for days.
From LONGING the 3rd chapter of TRUE LOVE
Destin Bays
#14. Remember babe, hurting people hurt people. And that doesn't make it right, and it won't ever make it okay. I just don't want to see you with a hurting someone that hurts people every single day.
Hope Alcocer
#15. I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me.
Logan to Madeline
Lisa Kleypas
#16. The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#17. I was where my heart held out hope that someday I would be again. It was the reason I never forgot him. My heart had held onto him. And as he clung to me, as he soothed me, held me, I felt everything begin to relax.
Rebecca Ethington
#18. I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.
Emma Donoghue
#19. He said he wants variety. The irony is that I wanted variety too. But I wanted variety in a solid, stable committed relationship where I would wake up each morning asking "What are we going to do today?" not asking "Who are you going to do today?
Aimee Lane
#20. I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?
Dorothea Benton Frank
#21. I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
Edan Lepucki
#22. I've never felt as happy as I've been for the past month. And I've never loved anyone like I love you right now.
Natalie Ansard
#23. According to a high percentage of novels I've read, it appears that falling in love at the beach is both easier and more satisfying than falling in love in a grocery store or mall.
Erin McCahan
#24. I would rather be destroyed by you than loved by anyone else.
C.J. Carlyon
#25. I missed talking to you, and playing with you, and touching you, and seeing you smile. I missed just ... sitting next to you. I've never missed anyone or anything that much
Mila Ferrera
#26. I understand now, why sometimes, you have to lose happiness to find it again ...
Jennifer J. Hayes
#27. Just for tonight, let's pretend I'm not a priest and you're not crazy. We're just two normal human beings having a good time. Just a man and a woman at a rip-off carnival, living in the moment.
Nancee Cain
#29. I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.
Adriana Trigiani
#30. I think everyone who gets to have dreams should reach for them. I want to help you reach.
Susan May Warren
#31. I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I put him to one side, and with the ardour and earnestness of my eighteen years I fell in love with one author after another: Flaubert, Gogol, Melville, and even Romain Rolland.
Dai Sijie
#32. The blinking of eyes is an involuntary reflex action, provided they eyes are not watching your beauty.
Amit Kalantri
#33. I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.
John Ridley
#34. His embrace left her breathless and restored all the faith she'd lost in the power of love. When their lips parted, she sighed and said, 'I don't need a party or anything else. All I need is you. I love you.' (Wildflowers)
Catherine Greenfeder
#35. Seth: I write of love in my novels, write of it well, if my critics and fans are to be believed, but in all of my years at that typewriter, I never found the combination of words that would convey how I felt about you. You were my everything.
Lissa Bryan
#36. Kyle, you are a mellow dude ... You can't be with an agitator. And that's what she is. An agitator. She's a Jackson Pollock and you're a Thomas Kinkade.
Genevieve Dewey
#37. I wanted something grand and sweeping."
"The kind of love you find in novels?"
"Maybe. That makes me incredibly stupid, I suppose.
Paula McLain
#38. Witches release the chapters of the past, which
invites the novels of the future.
Dacha Avelin
#39. When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.
Alvi Syahrin
#40. Live your life like the novels that you love to read. Only do the things that when you look back, you are proud of what you accomplished, feel good about how you treated others and didn't regret not doing to trying something. Every day is a new chapter, write something.
Taylor Berke
#41. I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.
Amit Kalantri
#42. Kate giggled. "Excellent choice."
"I always make excellent choices."
"I don't know about that."
"Of course I do. I picked ye, didn't I?
Whitney K.E.
#43. There's nothing new about this story of ours, such things happen. Love misses its mark, arrives too early or too late. Nobody dies, except in novels.
Aminatta Forna
#44. I've been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want?
Chayada Welljaipet
#45. You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#46. Dear girl with the red scarf,
Love was never meant to be conquered. You have to surrender to it.
Trust me, after all, I am Mr. Universe.
Maria La Serra
#47. I guess the most epic romances are still tucked away within the pages of her favorite novels, safely swathed in inked lies and faded paper promises. Forever fictional. Just like love.
S.L. Jennings
#48. I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.
Michel Houellebecq
#49. Though the trials of life are never easy, someone to stand with you and help you with your burdens is one of the true essences of living. It is well that two should join together to face life as friends as well as lovers.
Micheal Rivers
#50. They still had sexual relations with another, slept in the same bed, shared kisses and intimacy and matrimonial fluid, however both were not married to each other in that sense, although there was a piece of paper that said otherwise.
Keira D. Skye
#51. A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
Lorrie Moore
#52. It's beautiful here," Rees murmured, watching the light play upon the water before returning his gaze to her.
Mrs. Hollingsworth, his newest client, turned to him and forced a stiff smile. "Yes, money can buy all kinds of beautiful things," she said without a hint of emotion.
D.A. Rhine
#53. The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie promulgated by fundamentalist religious types and America's propaganda-savvy gun-pimps. It's believed by people who don't read novels, play video games, or go to many movies
Stephen King
#54. My hands are in his hair and his arms wrap around my waist tighter. I know what Henry does to me. I'm space bound. A rocket about to blast off. And I want Henry to send me to the moon.
Lauren Hammond
#55. The first six months are what I call the La La Land phase. This is what a lot of romantic novels, songs, and movies are based upon. Enjoy the courtship, nights out, and fun. You will eventually come back to reality.
Pamela Cummins
#56. I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
Kara Walker
#58. We are going to have that thing everyone talks about, that indescribable, indefinable thing that everybody wants to find...Here's to endless stargazing.
Ella Harper
#59. She was the wish of his life. He didn't know how else to say it. He didn't even know that he could really explain, just that every time he saw her he felt his bones might break under the weight of his wanting. His longing for her.
C.J. Carlyon
#60. Don't look for permanent love. You will be disappointed. It is found only in novels, fairy-tales, and films.
Girdhar Joshi
#61. He trusts her.
She nodded and
seemed happy to be
trusted at last.
- Not First Love
Jennifer Lawrence
#62. I'd like to say I'm not dressed up for anyone in particular, but that would be a lie.
Lisa Daily
#63. I'm still waiting for something, searching for something I cannot describe."
"It's called true love. Most people never find it.
Destin Bays
#64. Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
Melissa Pritchard
#65. From the very first moment I saw you,
"Hi."
"Hi."
My heart has raced with adrenaline. Stomach full of butterflies and one mind hopelessly full of love.
Hope Alcocer
#66. Why did you leave my hand? I've never felt so good, she thought. I felt good too, he thought.
Sara Naveed
#67. What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.
Shannon L. Alder
#68. I'm moving to fast. I just...I'm drawn to you. I want to make love to you. I can't help it.
Chloe Blaque
#69. Raphael said, "There are no tears in Heaven, no chances of a broken heart. Maybe being witness to great love is why I love coming to Earth. And maybe true love is why some angels choose to stay.
D.F. Jones
#70. It is more than love, barely less than madness. It's never close enough.
C.J. Carlyon
#71. Part of what I love about novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them, and in return they thrive. It's not their responsibility to figure out where the rent is coming from.
Ann Patchett
#72. I want to be the star in your diary" -Shawn, Fade to White
N.L. Churney
#73. I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.
Kerry Greenwood
#74. It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them ... not as if they had met before ... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect.
Lisa Kleypas
#75. Despite any warnings, she continued to move towards the flames he had ignited within her. Her limbs tingled as the fire spread, each touch of Alex's hands and lips caused a wave of cinders.
Amy Lee Peine
#77. I'm saying I love you, Cami. All of that was as real for me as it was for you. I'm asking if you'll stick this out beside me. I'm willing to lose my badge and even be dishonorably discharged if that's the case. I just don't want to lose you.
Lacey Weatherford
#78. My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
William Boyd
#81. People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.
Helen Fisher
#82. I'm pretty sure battle strategies and combat techniques don't cover desire and lust.
Tracey Steinbach
#83. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Enrico Manuel Alejandro Stephan Montebello, and you are trespassing on my land.
Grace Willows
#84. I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
Rachel Kushner
#85. Dark waves fell along the side of his face and he stared, pleading for me to see more of him. To see the truth.
Maybe I want to be the kind of guy a girl like you believes in.
Angela Parkhurst
#86. Never misconceive that which is real
Kim Holden
#87. Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.
Roger Ebert
#88. I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
Andrew Davies
#89. Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.
Jerome K. Jerome
#90. Some say romance novels are pure fantasy because of that happy ending, but the truth is that romantic love is everyday magic and happy endings happen every minute. Falling in love is one of the core elements of the human condition; it touches us all.
Sylvia Day
#91. You are my destiny, Thalia. You are mine."
He growled into my lips as he continued to make love to me. My hands clenched his shoulders. The markings on his chest made me feel all the love he possessed for me, and I for him. I touched the markings.
"Yours, Forever love.
Jessica Florence
#92. I read somewhere once that getting lost is the best way to find yourself.
Joanne Clancy
#93. I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.
Mark O'Donnell
#94. She needed this. For the comfort, for the love, for all the glorious things she did not deserve and yet could not stop herself from wanting.
Madeline Martin
#95. Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some are about suffering. There are as many different kinds of travel books as there are novels. People think a travel book is one thing. It's many things.
Paul Theroux
#96. Why would you apologize for what you read for pleasure? Just think of the illiteracy rate. Every book read for pleasure should be celebrated. And novels that celebrate love, commitment, relationships, making relationships work, why isn't that something to be respected?
Nora Roberts
#98. Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.
Adriana Trigiani
#99. He was desire, and I was his prisoner, chained up by his kisses. Submissive to his touch.
Candace Knoebel
#100. I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I enjoy writing the contemporary and historical books equally, though perhaps 'enjoy' is the wrong word.
Susan Wiggs
