Romantic Fiction Quotes

#1. Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.

Susanna Kearsley

#2. If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.

Charlotte Lamb

#3. An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.

Victoria Clayton

#4. I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.

Paula Hawkins

#5. Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

#7. Or was he the romantic fiction of a girl who'd been desperate for a handsome stranger to come along?

Ann Brashares

#8. I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense.

Robertson Davies

#9. A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such.

Revilo P. Oliver

#10. There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.

Candace Camp

#11. Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

Janet Street-Porter

#12. I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Louise Brown

#13. When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

Susanna Kearsley

#14. Black Jack. A common name for rogues and scoundrels in the eighteenth century. A staple of romantic fiction, the name conjured up charming highwaymen, dashing blades in plumed hats. The reality waled at my side.

Diana Gabaldon

#15. Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.

Charlotte Lamb

#16. Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.

Charlotte Lamb

#17. Admittedly, they [(places in novels)] didn't all have such ridiculous names as the ones in the Piddle Valley where her father's group of parishes was centered. It would have been hard to make credible a romantic fiction set in Farleigh Piddle, Middle Piddle, Nether Piddle and Piddle Dummer.

Val McDermid

#18. I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

F. Paul Wilson

#19. When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.

Adrian Tomine

#20. This typewriter is the only one that has listened to me throughout the years, the only one who wants to know the girl beneath my layers.

Tessa Emily Hall

#21. We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too.

Henry Martin

#22. And why is it all men think
everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly
drivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of finding
the perfect love?

V.C. Andrews

#23. My romantic history since arriving on Novo has been non-existent, but I don't know what, if anything, came before; thanks to the government's cerebral pilfering.

Siobhan Davis

#24. God's got my picture,' Piper reiterated, 'taped right up there on his big, big, giiinormous fridge.' She smiled. 'Because he's crazy about me. And about you, too.

Candace Calvert

#25. When the wolf howls and the moon dims
hope fades with the waning light.
Evil lurks at every turn as shadows waltz
across the ebony night.
Behold the midnight hour
where all of reason takes flight.

Grace Willows

#26. See? Instead of thinking of a way to help my people, all I can think of is the smell of your hair and that small dimple on your cheek when you smile. (Victor)

A.B. Whelan

#27. I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

Lauren Willig

#28. The most romantic creation to have come out of regret is time-travel

Preeti Bhonsle

#29. My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

Alan Moore

#30. How can I be more important than someone else? Isn't every life important?

Shelley K. Wall

#31. Nobody's life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

Ruth Glick

#32. You're not so tough. No tougher than the man whose blood will spill from your veins.

Dawn M. Turner

#33. Maybe I should get a gun...

Elizabeth Horton-Newton

#34. No one can stop death, Omari. It is normal and certain. And nothing should get in the way of a person's true destiny.

Stephen Whitfield

#35. Sometimes, if you want to survive, you've got to run. You have to run as far and as fast as you can

Patricia Eimer

#36. I want you to grab hold of the brass spindles and don't let go." When she did as he required, he spread her legs wider. "Hold tight, baby. This is going to feel so good.

Maggie Adams

#37. We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

John Green

#38. I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

Milan Kundera

#39. One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

Julian Fellowes

#40. If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.

Evan Meekins

#41. There was something wild beneath the surface that his suit couldn't hide. He had the cocky arrogance of a man who broke the rules with impunity. A man who feared nothing. A very, very dangerous man.

Sarah Castille

#42. Lily looks back down at the necklace in her hand that Kavita had given her. "It must have cost a fortune."
"It did." He confirms. "Though not nearly as much as you're worth."
Lily looks up at him. "Don't say that. You hurt me everytime you speak.

Carroll Bryant

#43. Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.

Naomi Wood

#44. When I make love to you, Lanie, I want you to feel every inch of me buried deep inside of you, loving you, worshiping your body ...

Flora Roberts

#45. What is damage but forcing yourself, memories of yourself, onto someone else? Coloring someone else's body. In reality, it's sort of romantic. It's why we love to hurt each other.

E.J. Koh

#46. Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Oscar Wilde

#47. There were no colonies on Earth. It was all a scam the Martians were using to con the rest of the universe. There had been no first contact. Her knees quivered, and all her muscles tensed. She was first contact.

Patricia Eimer

#48. You're not safe with me."
He cut me off, seeming to growl. "I don't want to be safe. I want to be with you. You can't do this alone.

S.G. Holster

#49. His voice as smooth as silk, Grant started into his standard crowd-pleaser: Sinatra's 'My Kind of Town.

Jennifer Lane

#50. Ashlinn was lovely to look upon, someone who could easily snub half of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood and break the hearts of the rest.

Calista Lynne

#51. Love, is there even a true description other than knowing your heart will cease to beat without that certain someone in your life?
-Rusty Blackwood

Rusty Blackwood

#52. That's the funny thing about guns; even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you're left with nothing but a coward whose only skill is how to blindly pull a trigger.

Jennifer Wilson

#53. Keep cool, Corri. Don't panic until he says the word "alien." That's the time to panic.

Patricia Eimer

#54. The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Thomas Mallon

#55. The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.

Jennifer Walkup

#56. I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

Andre Dubus III

#57. My looks are other peoples' problem because I don't have to look at myself.

Gerry Burnie

#58. She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next.

Alexa Grace

#59. He had always liked a good mess - God knows he had sure made a few. In typical form, he squared his shoulders, furrowed his brows and muttered, bring it on.

Shelley K. Wall

#60. They are my men and this ship my responsibility. I vowed no woman would ever alter my path. Yet I kept them from ending you, and it makes me sick to the gut, for I would still rather die myself than see one hair on your head damaged by another man.

Saskia Walker

#61. I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.

Jennifer Walkup

#62. Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#63. Say it again," he says.
"That whole drawn-out speech?" I remember something about a solar system, but I'm too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again.
He steps closer. "No. The part about you fallin' for me.

Simone Elkeles

#64. The white lily stands for purity. Artists for centuries have pictured the angel Gabriel coming to the virgin Mary with a spray of lillies in his hand, to announce that she is to be the mother of the Turks.

Carroll Bryant

#65. 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

#66. Please do not mistake me for a twopenny villain. I do nothing without a purpose.

Donna Thorland

#67. If you don't have sex with me right now, I swear I will light you on fire and bury your body in the desert.

Patricia Eimer

#68. I'm going to make love to you, Lanie. I'm not your first, but I will be the last.

Flora Roberts

#69. I may have loved to read my romance and smut novels, but I was not blinded by the 'fiction' part of it all. I knew the difference between what was real and what came from a hopeless romantic's imagination.

Christine Zolendz

#70. I stared at my lap. I wished I were confident, I wished I were brave. I wished he didn't scare me. But the more he spoke the less I wanted to look away, and the more I did.

Rose Fall

#71. If you wanted candles and romantic music, then you wouldn't have chosen me."
"Maybe I didn't choose," she dared. "Maybe it just happened.

Megan Duke

#72. If only she could jump into the flyer and scurry back across the mountains but she had work to do and a planet to save.

Mary Brock Jones

#73. And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I'll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.

Jennifer Walkup

#74. I don't know who those other people are and what they did to you, but I'm not one of them," I whispered, on the verge of tears. (Molly)
"You are. You just don't know yet." (Victor)

A.B. Whelan

#75. Uh-uh. We are not even going to start with the whole I come in peace thing, E.T.

Patricia Eimer

#76. I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.

Mindy Kaling

#77. Would the man in the cabin have come after them? Would he have sent someone else? Or would he have never even known they were there and they could have just gone back to normal life.
Normal Life. He didn't even know what that would be now.

Shelley K. Wall

#78. Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#79. 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

#80. Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

Thomas Hood

#81. His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back.

S. Elle Cameron

#82. You know," Kavita begins, "I think I can pick out my own furniture. I am an artist after all. I do have some taste."
"No you don't." Nick plainly states. "No man has taste. Besides, I didn't pick it out, she did. Wives are good for things like that.

Carroll Bryant

#83. Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.

Timothy Leary

#84. Mary approaches her before she is able to reach her station. "Hello Lily. Get anything special for Christmas?"
"Just the usual." She answers. "Shattered dreams.

Carroll Bryant

#85. Sarah, I'm going to take care of you whether you like it or not.

Robyn Carr

#86. These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady's things - hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.

Gwenn Wright

#87. I haven't always been a patient man ... but something tells me you'd be worth the wait.

Sam Langley

#88. Hey, when you love a woman, and when she's this crazy in love with you, you've got to do whatever she says, man.

Arby Robbins

#89. No." A short, crazed laugh. "Juliette. Please. Please. Don't tell me he's filled your head with romantic notions. Please don't tell me you fell for his false proclamations -

Tahereh Mafi

#90. Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way.

Dorothy W. Cosey

#91. Honest, hopelessly romantic old-fashioned gentleman seeks lady friend who enjoys elegant dining, dancing and the slow bloom of affection.

Claire Cook

#92. It was something Ferdo said. We may not have it all, you and I, but we have more than is granted most men or women, he told me, and he was right.

Mary Brock Jones

#93. No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really understand the condition if you've never found yourself in it?

Sherry D. Ficklin

#94. Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?

Jennifer Walkup

#95. Perhaps great fiction is in reality, deep hidden truths.

S.G. Savage

#96. Amazing? My heart fluttered. "But I don't want Flash or Harry," I murmured. "You want Spider-Man," he finished for me, looking a little wistful. I shrugged. "And Peter Parker." He looked at me, very seriously. "Then don't settle," he said.

J.M. Richards

#97. You fill my soul with hope and love.
Together, we will remain through the heavens above.
One soul, together. For always and forever ...

A.R. Von

#98. What you must do," she continued, "you will. Your mission will be as clear to you and as demanding as your heartbeat. Everything else is just a waste of your time.

Stephen Whitfield

#99. She couldn't be the first alien to crash-land on twenty-first-century Earth.

Patricia Eimer