Top 100 Quotes About Romance Novel
#1. A love story is not the same as a romance novel. A romance novel is the story of two people falling in love against their will. This is a story of two people who leave each other against their will. It starts to end the minute they meet.
Tiffany Reisz
#2. 10% of authors earn 75% of the royalties. If you're writing a Romance novel, your odds will be slightly higher at making back your investment. Throw in a few vampires, even better.
J.R. Young
#3. She's a lovely young woman from upstate New York, but you should be very thankful for those romance-novel-reading, tween-movie-watching women. They've had a big hand in making our town a success." "And Julian's love life, once he learned to spray himself with glitter.
Kristen Painter
#4. He was tall, dark and handsome, the complete trifecta. His unique grey eyes and his tousled dark brown hair, made him look like he belonged on the cover of a romance novel.
Nicole Gulla
#5. I wasn't the demonstrative type. I didn't say I love you all the time, and I wasn't girlish or giggly. I hated shopping in pairs and preferred staying home with a good romance novel than a girls' night out. But I figured sometimes you have to meet someone halfway.
C.D. Reiss
#6. This is like a freaking romance novel. What happened next?
Shelly Crane
#7. Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.
Gena Showalter
#8. And a trashy romance novel. I don't care which one, but the less the guy on the cover is wearing, the better. Tattoos are a plus. Leather is another plus. And if there's an indication that he's a shifter, buy the whole series.
Kristen Ashley
#9. And you're right- I don't want nice. I want sparks and fire. I want a romance novel. A Jane Austen movie. A fairy tale.
Shari L. Tapscott
#10. But life could not be lived between the pages of a romance novel.
Barbara Bell
#11. Get your deprived, samall-town, romance-novel reading mind out of of the gutter, Becky.
Maureen A. Miller
#12. Like a junkie, I was jonesing for a romance novel coupling. I needed a pulsing pillar of passion, a mammoth mail member, a cocky cobra ready to tangle with my vaginal mongoose.
I also needed to think about upgrading my reading. My imagery was actually starting to bother me.
Alice Clayton
#13. 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
#14. I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.
Patton Oswalt
#15. I suppose it's why I usually loved to get lost in a good romance novel, because it would let me escape into the fantasy that I hoped to make come true one day. -Kate, Zack
Sawyer Bennett
#16. And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel.
Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her.
And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.
Sherman Alexie
#17. I'd never read a romance novel about conjoined twins. It was a huge market that had never been tapped. I had just come up with the new Twilight,
Robyn Peterman
#18. 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
#19. I don't want to make a tea set. I want to make crystal, as the wonderful Billy Wiseass would put it. That poor bastard has it good: he's never experienced love. It'll be easy for him to write a romance novel.
Danilo Kis
#20. The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
Suzanne Brockmann
#21. Stella couldn't believe this was happening. Gavin and Holden were both in her bed and just as desperate for her as she was for them. Her life had morphed into a cross between a romance novel and a porno. If she was dreaming, she didn't ever want to wake up.
Amanda Young
#22. In a typical college romance novel, this was the moment I would've been waiting for. The validation of all my shame and suffering at the hands of other men: a beautiful boy loved me. What had been done to my body didn't ruin me for Mr. Right. Zippity-fucking-doo-dah.
Leah Raeder
#23. Seminaked men!" Jacky trilled.
"With swords," Kat purred. "It is a romance novel!
P.C. Cast
#24. Mr. Ryker is fucking hot. Thick, bulging muscles worthy of a romance novel cover, long legs, big hands, a whole sleeve of floral tattoos. Yeah. Flowers. Fucking flowers on this man's massive bicep. He looks like he could crush a tree trunk with those long fingers.
C.M. Stunich
#25. Whatever happens in a romance novel doesn't always have to stay in one.
Renee Alexis
#26. May the next man in McKenna's life be one of those heroes in a romance novel - rich, good-looking and perfect in every way.
Lauren Blakely
#28. Star gazing in a hammock? That sounds like a bad romance novel cliche!
Katie Ashley
#29. Even the geekiest of guys could get the girl if he read every romance novel that came out in any given month.
Teresa Medeiros
#30. A vampire in a romance novel was something very different than one standing in front of you.
Kristen Painter
#31. I try not to imagine what it would feel like if I leaned forward and kissed her, but with her this close, I'm really wishing I'd have already somehow read every romance novel ever written, because what the hell makes a kiss book-worthy? I need to know so I can make it happen.
Colleen Hoover
#32. It was my TBR-my TO Be Read stack. The usual subjects were there. Chick lit. Action. A Pulitzer Prize winner. A romance novel about a pirate and a damsel in a low-cut blouse (What? Even vampire enjoys a little bodice ripping now and again.)
Chloe Neill
#33. As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.
Em Bailey
#34. Ironically, in life, you sacrifice everything you love in the name of love"~ the motto of the romance novel Cupcakes and Cologne.
Doina Moulin
#35. ' 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
#36. A good romance novel is like a bubble bath...steamy, relaxing, and over way too soon.
Donna Marie Rogers
#37. A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.
Judith McNaught
#38. We were written for one another, and I wouldn't change one line in our romance novel. The good, the bad, the in between. It's ours. We own it.
Gail McHugh
#39. Looking at someone else's relationship for the answers was like reading about a romance novel hero and expecting to find a carbon copy in real life
Maya Banks
#40. I know people think erotica is just a romance novel with rougher sex. It's not. If it's a subgenre of anything, it's horror.
Horror? Really?
Romance is sex plus love. Erotica is sex plus fear.
Tiffany Reisz
#41. In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
Chow Yun-Fat
#42. At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people.
Sarah MacLean
#43. I haven't dated Clancy - God help me if I do - but he's tipping my all-men-are-jackasses theory completely over the edge of the scale. To add insult to injury, he looks like the damn cover of a romance novel. I hate those covers.
N.L. Gervasio
#44. When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat to the status quo. It's also why this eternally popular and profitable genre has been scorned, ridiculed and dismissed.
Maya Rodale
#45. Tall, blond, and immortal." "Viking vampire assassins," Murphy said, barely stifling a sneer. "Sounds like the subject of a bad romance novel." "I disagree," Carwyn said. "That sounds like a rather excellent romance novel.
Elizabeth Hunter
#46. Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?
Lori Wilde
#47. Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.
Jourdan Dunn
#48. I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
Julia Quinn
#49. 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
#50. I expect a report on his abs. Real details, not romance novel nonsense.
Katie McGarry
#51. As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel - romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies ... well ... babies are complicated.
Sarah MacLean
#52. She shoved to her feet. What the hell is that scroll? Some sort of Aegis romance novel? Underworld erotica? Screw you all.
Larissa Ione
#53. I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.
Julia Quinn
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don't the stories lack complexity? Don't the readers get bored?
Sarah MacLean
#57. There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.
Julia Quinn
#58. Escaping Reality One Erotic Romance Novel At a Time.
S.K. Logsdon
#59. There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean's horizon.
P.J. Parker
#60. When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#61. You'll have more power when you aren't angry. Anger sucks your energy. It makes you weak and distorts your focus.
A. Valentine Joseph
#62. Life is like a friendship, eventually it will end, by conflict or God's hand"
-Sons In The Clouds
Randy Mitchell
#63. A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra's Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning pages and begging for a sequel.
Laurie Faria Stolarz
#64. The kiss wove between gentle and frenzied, liquid and greedy, silken and primal, and he sucked every second of bliss he could from the forbidden pleasure.
Jami Gold
#65. One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded myself out of sheer humiliation.
Lisa Daily
#66. People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.
Michelle M. Pillow
#67. 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
#68. I would like to make it clear here that Avantika was neither a very friendly person nor a friendly boss - she was just a bossy boss.
Sandhya Jane
#69. Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith
#70. Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?
P.J. Parker
#71. Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light's father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.
P.J. Parker
#72. I always wondered why I didn't try to seduce you, since you're so good-looking, more appealing than any woman.
Debra Strattford
#73. You carry the weight of the preternatural world on those big shoulders of yours. But your heart is even bigger, and the burden you harbor there heavier.
N.D. Jones
#74. Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.
Sherry Thomas
#75. Though her grasp of English was modest and his Italian non-existent, their rapport was at once intuitive and intimate, founded more on physical attraction and a shared love of the outdoors than meaningful conversation.
Robert Radcliffe
#76. Each would treasure going to hell if it would keep the other safe!
Sidney St. James
#77. I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.
Michael Ondaatje
#78. And even though they had not had sex yet, he was a great lover, replacing sex with the science of bravery and inner strength. Meredith had always wanted a man with this kind of depth.
Keira D. Skye
#80. The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.
P.J. Parker
#81. I felt clueless and nervous--pretty much the same way I'd been feeling ever since I came back from Italy.
Maria Grazia Swan
#82. I've been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want?
Chayada Welljaipet
#83. We're taking it a hundred miles north.
That's a hundred miles closer to where you are.
I've decided units and measurements of distance are bullshit.
With you there are only two distances that matter:
Here.
Not here.
You are not here.
Penny Reid
#84. You know, nice guys finish last, don't you?"
"I guess I'll finish last.
Jalpa Williby
#85. Talk to me. Say something, anything," he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal.
"There's nothing to say."
He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me?
Stephanie Witter
#88. It takes skill to win a battle, but brains to win a war.
Amy I. Long
#89. Sorry, I think I'll pass. You're not my type."
"I'm everybody's type, he says. You just have to realize it.
J.C. Reed
#90. As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.
Rowena Cherry
#91. Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.
Jane Austen
#92. And on bad days, when his aura of sadness blazed like an alarm he couldn't turn off, I felt like I was doing everything wrong.
Lindsey Frydman
#93. Just the night before, a puma's howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn't get any richer than that.
Ed Lynskey
#94. Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit ...
Megan S. Johnston
#95. Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.
Kellyn Roth
#96. Focus. She's Maddie. Your friend. Would you eyeball Keith or Dane's butt like that? ~ Zach
Monique DeVere
#97. When did I start feeling so safe with him? I guess knowing that my friends wouldn't set me up with some psycho criminal helps.
Rene Webb
#98. I'd like to say I'm not dressed up for anyone in particular, but that would be a lie.
Lisa Daily
#99. To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.
James Parton
#100. I felt like I was suffocating, like my future and all my happiness were gone. I've never felt that before, Ava. I can't let you go.
Nicole Gulla
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