Quotes About Romance Novels

#1. Me, sweep him off his feet? I know. The laws of the jungle and romance novels would have it the other way around, but I'm not going to wait one more second for that.

Laini Taylor

#2. (Paris, keeper of Promiscuity, enjoyed romance novels), and weird silver lamps that twisted and curved over the chairs; he had no idea who those were for. Fresh flowers bloomed from vases, sweetly scenting the air. Again, he had no idea. Fine. He'd requested those. That shit smelled good. Gideon

Gena Showalter

#3. Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.

Clementine Holzinger

#4. When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

Dorothy Allison

#5. Romance novels constitute 46 percent of all mass market paperbacks sold in the United States, and according to Harlequin, over half its customers buy an average of 30 novels a month

Eva Illouz

#6. Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.

Lexi Blake

#7. 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

#8. Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories are silly and unrealistic, we are telling young girls not to expect to be the heroines in their own real lives.

Maya Rodale

#9. Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.

Kellyn Roth

#10. Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

Simone Elkeles

#11. Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

Melissa Pritchard

#12. My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

Kathleen Hanna

#13. I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

Nicole Luiken

#14. I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

Lauren Willig

#15. It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.

Teresa Medeiros

#16. 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

#17. I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.

Teresa Medeiros

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Albert Einstein

#20. I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.

Nicholas Sparks

#21. Here's the thing about romance novels: The moment when the hero and heroine discover that they're perfect for each other is often the moment when it's them against the world.

Sarah MacLean

#22. I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.

Ruth Glick

#23. Fantasy novels reveal "emergency escape routes" from reality. Romance novels dish out a banquet of Eye Candy. Otherworldly passion erupts when the two collide in an epic novel of unforgettable characters and dire circumstances.

Sarah J. Pepper

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

Karen Marie Moning

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

Isabel Allende

#26. For many characters, the prospect of having a child in their life brings up a lot of issues about their own parents. And who doesn't love that? Bad mommy or daddy issues are a delicious staple in romance novels.

Molly O'Keefe

#27. Take romance for instance. Fictional women in romance novels never get their period. They never have morning breath. They orgasm seventeen times a day. And they never seem to have jobs with bosses.

Penny Reid

#28. Life isn't about gold dust farting unicorns, sugar coated mountains, and fairies. It's about fun. Romance and romance novels are for pussies and dreamers.

Scott Hildreth

#29. 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

#30. No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read.

Sarah MacLean

#31. Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

Mark Pellegrino

#32. Watch for the digital release of all my romance novels coming soon.

Krista Janssen

#33. I, for one, love kids in my romance novels. When done right, kids add so much conflict. Not just of the 'interruption on the way to the bedroom' variety. But conflict about commitment and insecurity.

Molly O'Keefe

#34. We all knew that you'd eventually end up with Macallan. I guess I should be offended, but maybe I read too many romance novels to no want to cheer for the two best friends.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#35. According to Lacey's romance novels, the fittest ghosts are good, apart from them breaking your heart with their soul-crushing dashingness - Lacey's words.

Sarah Dalton

#36. One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.

Alessandra Stanley

#37. I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

Roxane Gay

#38. Romance novels could teach a man a thing or two, if he was smart enough to open his mind and really see.

M.K. Meredith

#39. Third step, get to know her surroundings so she could get out of there. Or at least try. That's what the heroine always did, right? And they said romance novels never taught anyone anything. She'd prove them wrong. And get the heck out of there.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#40. Mary Henry ought to write romance novels. She has a way of embellishing that most authors would envy.

Sandy James

#41. The most cherished goal in physics, as in bad romance novels, is unification.

Lee Smolin

#42. So she laughed instead, squeezing him in her arms and wondering how she'd ever written romance novels without really understanding what love was.

Claire Kent

#43. I don't write romance novels.

Nicholas Sparks

#44. Scripture comforts me, and romance novels give me hope." "Oh yeah? Hope for what?" "Hope that I'll be doing more than quoting scripture with Ambrose Young in the very near future".

Amy Harmon

#45. In my experience, the romance novels written about BDSM have about as much in common with actual BDSM relationships as a child playing with a jump rope.

Nenia Campbell

#46. To Jane Austen, for making romance novels classics and keepers for generations.

Mary Balogh

#47. 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

#48. MEG (to Dante, the vampire):Vampires aren't as cool as I expected them to be. In romance novels, vampires are all dark and broody and sexy. In real life, you talk an awful lot about stocks.

Sophie Oak

#49. Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.

Janet Evanovich

#50. 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

#51. He bent over the back of sofa inside my apartment and removed my panties. With his Teeth.
With his mother-loving teeth! I can't even!
Romance novels, schmomance novels, here's how Wallbanger does it

Alice Clayton

#52. 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

#53. I actually have a little time to read, so I'm indulging in the newest Laurelin Paige novel, full of lust and sex and lots of romance. Romance novels are my biggest guilty pleasure. And this woman can write.

Kristen Proby

#54. Now, tell me you like to read, and we'll be soulmates." "My iPad is full of trashy romance novels." A slow smile spreads across her pretty face. "I'm keeping you.

Kristen Proby

#55. I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer.

Chevy Stevens

#56. You know, the heroes in my romance novels always say that. Scout's honor. But they all later admit to never being a Boy Scout.

Rachel Harris

#57. When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

Chuck Palahniuk

#58. I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#59. There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in what I am doing and readers love them. And why not? They are harmless and they are fun.

Sara Craven

#60. Now I was truly offended. "I don't read romance novels," I hissed, "I read gay fiction.

Nick Pageant

#61. My iPad is full of trashy romance novels.

Kristen Proby

#62. I'm tempted to shove one of my romance novels up your ass"- P.J. said sharply
"But I love my books too much to desecrate them like that. I'll settle for my boot.

Maya Banks

#63. Life isn't easy. Love isn't easy. Fairy tales are books we read to children. Romance novels are books that make teenagers dream of love and happily ever afters. I'm here to tell you my story. This is my diary. This is my life. This is my truth. You can't make this shit up.

Brenda Novak

#64. 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

#65. All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#66. ...and lovers of romance novels and dissident rebels and brothers in Christ and druids and shamans and aphrodisiac vendors and scriveners and purveyors of real fake passports and gun-runners and porters and bric-a-brac trades and mining prospectors short on liquid assets and Siamese twins...

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

#67. Dad. I love that you aren't afraid to carry around romance novels with almost-naked men on the cover and hand them out as "tips" to waitresses, hairdressers, and anyone else you come across. Thanks for being one of my biggest fans.

Susan Stoker

#68. Uh oh, maybe I'm hysterical. No, the look on his face had been so funny. Did he really think to kiss me into submission? That shit might work in romance novels, but not on me. If he wants to kiss me he'll have to earn that privilege again.

Tamara Hoffa

#69. It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.

Neil Gaiman

#70. Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun's rays to reach out and touch us for just a moment in time ... one second-glance to warm our spirits and soothe our aching hearts.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#71. 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

#72. Wouldn't you like to believe you're the center of someone's universe? To feel so special that the rest of the world didn't matter and it could all wait? What would you be willing to pay for that - any time you needed to feel that way?

D.A. Rhine

#73. Relationships are like a book,
It takes few seconds to burn,
But
It takes years to write,
So write it carefully
And
Never let it burn

Aditya Nighot

#74. You won't always have the luxury of a second chance. So be careful with your first one.

Donna Kauffman

#75. The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

Mary Papas

#76. It's not the having of the gift that makes the difference in life here or in another place. It's how we use that gift that shows the true heart. ~ Acronis

Madison Thorne Grey

#77. Some Prologue really makes you speechless and you started imagining the whole story and want to read it as soon as possible. One such prologue, which I read today was from "Me "N" Her.. A strange feeling by Rikky Bhartia ... "
By Himani Gupta

Rikky Bhartia

#78. 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

#79. It takes a truly great man to see that he's been wrong and to apologize for it, even in the face of the obvious.

Amy Lane

#80. On the contrary, I think making you happy should be taken very seriously.

Drea Damara

#81. I couldn't shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary.

Nicole Gulla

#82. Life is like a friendship, eventually it will end, by conflict or God's hand"
-Sons In The Clouds

Randy Mitchell

#83. 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

#84. Oh, now look what you've done. You've gone and pissed him off, Breccan said as he stood behind two of the gypsies, one of his large hands clamped down on each of their shoulders.

Madison Thorne Grey

#85. 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

#86. They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years

Nicholas Sparks

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. Katie leaned forward conspiratorially. Oh, sweetie, I just said that because Alice is an old bag. You go after Devon. The man is fine. I don't blame you for changing your look for a shot at that. When the pool about you two gets going at Petie's Pub, I'm putting my money on you.

Susan Meier

#90. 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

#91. If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!

I.R. Shankar

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. Because sometimes in life, Ken didn't always choose Barbie. (Jane Alcott)

Rachel Gibson

#96. 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

#97. I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.

Erin McCarthy

#98. The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining.

Thomas Sweeney

#99. Damn, her mouth was a weapon.

Kelly Moran

#100. I would rather be destroyed by you than loved by anyone else.

C.J. Carlyon