Romance Writers Quotes

#1. Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

Nora Roberts

#3. Last time I blushed was when I smoothed my hands over the back of my dress and actually touched skin. Seems the material was tucked into my underwear, and everyone around me had gotten a show. This, of course, was at a romance writers' conference.

Gena Showalter

#4. The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility.

Sarah MacLean

#5. Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men.

Teresa Medeiros

#6. For this world of readers and writers. There's nowhere else I'd rather be than here with you. May we all have an adventure just like Lille's, in the pages and in our minds.

L. H. Cosway

#7. {Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain't gonna be happy in heaven either!}

Nancy B. Brewer

#8. As a writer, I am not opposed to killing off villains. That's not the kind of later biting in the ass I prefer for my protagonist.

Gabbo De La Parra

#9. Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#10. 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

#11. may
this poetry
be the home
you will someday
come back to.

Sanober Khan

#12. Being friends is different from being lovers. It's a sea change.

Barbara Delinsky

#13. The most important step in the whole process was to just sit down and do it. My hobby has become a second career. Who knew?-Jamie Beck, Romance Novelist

Holly Hurd

#14. Every woman feels. It just takes the right man to make things combust.

Barbara Delinsky

#15. Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#16. There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Sarah MacLean

#17. When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#18. Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their days, the types who give much artistic expression to the world, but who are lonely in their overcrowded worlds of love.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#19. Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.

Kelly Moran

#20. you are
so delicious
to my poetic side.

Sanober Khan

#21. For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

Nancy Kress

#22. A Writer in Love.

I was just a word weaver
What did I know of love?

Only that
Some days when the words weren't enough,
I knew
I was in love.

Saiber

#23. She was like a mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!

Avijeet Das

#24. You are lovelier than all the roses in the world.

Avijeet Das

#25. Love was for dummies, soulmates were the creation of pulp-fiction writers; romance was craved by ageing, lonely cat owners. Successful relationships were built on rationality and compromise.

Karan Bajaj

#26. 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

#27. If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

Jamie L. Harding

#28. For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um ... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something ... then yeah, they're old enough. LOL

Michelle M. Pillow

#29. Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

Sherry Thomas

#30. Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!
If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins

Paula V. Hardin

#31. Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#32. What we have ... is something most folks wait a lifetime for, and only touch for a heartbeat. They let go too quickly, or they're too scared to hold on, or they never see what's right in front of them. But we're going to hold on as tight as we can. - Jonah Walker

Molli Moran

#33. All writers are manipulative liars.
Jack O. Savage, The Poet

Hunter S. Jones

#34. That's why writers write - to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.

Tarryn Fisher

#35. i write
because

it is
the only way

i can
reach you.

Sanober Khan

#36. Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#37. I'm so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It's deeply rewarding and not a little humbling to be honored by such a talented tribe of writers.

Sarah MacLean

#38. Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

Shannon L. Alder

#39. Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words.

Barbara Case Speers