Writing Romance Quotes

#1. For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction.

James Patrick Kelly

#2. There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance.

Lauren Willig

#3. I don't like writing romance in my books because that's the turning point of 90% of YA sci-fi/fantasy books and, quite frankly, it gets annoying after a while. The protagonist has more important things to worry about than boys and whether or not they like her.

Meghan Blistinsky

#4. Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

Amos Oz

#5. 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

#6. All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

Michelle Franklin

#7. As a woman writing SF, I felt I had to think and write like a man in order to be taken seriously.

Heidi Ruby Miller

#8. The woman eyed Ubie a moment before grabbing a pen and writing down the dates I had. Ubie eyed her back. Sparks flew.

Darynda Jones

#9. 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

#10. Every day is different, every day I'm on an adventure. If I get bored, you can bet that in the story I'm writing, bullets will fly.

Jodi Thomas

#11. There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre ... plus a dragon.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. Men write great romance because they have more at stake

P.J. Bayliss

#13. All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius.

P.D. James

#14. 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

#15. Something wrong?"
"No." David's voice was low and full of emotion. "I just wanted to look at you."
"What do you see?"
"My future.

Shira Anthony

#16. 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

#17. A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

Honore De Balzac

#18. It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of "Fight Club." The film has a very different ending than the book does.

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful thing. But, when you mention two guys in love, they forget all that and freak out.

Mark A. Roeder

#20. Love is a book and a light to read it by.

Peter Hubbard

#21. 'What time is it,' you ask? According to 16 of my dearest writing pals, it's always time for a wonderful romance!

Teresa Medeiros

#22. You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Julia Quinn

#23. 'We're not ... we haven't been writing poetry and sprinkling rose petals and tripping hand in hand under rainbows, Kay.'
'Just because you have Y chromosomes doesn't mean you can't tell each other how you feel, Dylan. Your penises won't fall off if you do.'

Kim Fielding

#24. 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

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

Nora Roberts

#26. I drank in his smell, I'd missed him so much more than I'd realised. Despite dreaming of him every night, besides my secret habit of writing Honour Hussain in curled scripts on every scrap piece of paper, I surprised myself by how much I needed him.

Ruth Ahmed

#27. Flora had decided that this was part of the reason her parents had divorced. Not the noise of the writing, but the writing itself. Specifically, the writing of romance. Flora

Kate DiCamillo

#28. The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it

Marti Melville

#29. For my little dog, Pip, who joined our family during the writing of
this story. Thanks for rescuing me.

Jackie Braun

#30. When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish ... Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

Orson Scott Card

#31. I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

Rainbow Rowell

#32. The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

Khaled Hosseini

#33. It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!

Martha Sweeney

#34. Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.

China Mieville

#35. Cheekbones that cut like ice and eyes like liquid scotch. Loren Hale is an alcoholic beverage and he doesn't even know it.

Krista Ritchie

#36. I'm a writer," she declared before she drained the glass. "I should learn about everything.

Mary Cox

#37. Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work!

Delia J. Colvin

#38. I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.

Julia Quinn

#39. Our feelings are best articulated with words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. To be honest, I chose romance because writing a book seemed so dauntingly long. I looked around for something short, discovered Harlequin romances, and decided to read a few to see if I could do it.

Lori Wilde

#41. Writing a novel takes creativity. Publishing it takes courage

M.L. Kilian

#42. I began to write and came to see that writing has the same laws as nature. The simplest way to say something is always the best. Is that simple enough?

Chloe Thurlow

#43. She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.

Anna Godbersen

#44. All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

David Cronenberg

#45. Darling' there're things I haven't told you yet either, just didn't know how to broach the subject. We can't know everything about each other by writing a few letters and having dinner once." - Chance Holcomb

Caroline Fyffe

#46. The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.

A.E. Poynor

#47. I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.

Destinee Hardwick

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The power and might of my hand have done these things." God has been ruled out; consequently, the thrill and romance of true living are gone for most people.

Lee Roberson

#51. To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Henry Fielding

#52. The rest of the morning would consist of checking on a pothole in the parking lot of the village clinic and writing up a schedule for the community centre that might finally settle the ongoing feud between the local quilting group and the bridge club.
It was good to be queen.

Molly Harper

#53. One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

Nicola Cornick

#54. You'll love Philadelphia," she said. "But watch out for the ladies who are putting on your shin-dig. There's a romance writing group near here in Erie, and let me just say - we've been called out to a few of their parties. Some of those chicks are decently hard-core.

K.C. Dyer

#55. I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writing style has changed.

Shiloh Walker

#56. The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.

Michelle Franklin

#57. 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

#58. That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.

Megan Smith

#59. Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

P. J. O'Rourke

#60. I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.

Francine Rivers

#61. I wrote this about you, about our love, our story. And I feel so damn lucky that others in this world, strangers in other parts, can steal a piece of what we have and feel so lucky too.

Crystal Woods

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

Sherry Thomas

#63. You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.

Kelly Link

#64. Choice betrays character," I said.
"That's not true." Loring moved his finger along the
sheet as if writing his name in cursive. "Eliza, you can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#65. Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit ...

Megan S. Johnston

#66. Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story ... Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

L.M. Montgomery

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. Writing is my dream. From romance to dragons; fairies to fantasy worlds, this is where I live and play. Thanks be to God!

Lisa Hannah Wells

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

Randy Mitchell

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

Avijeet Das

#73. The romance of solitude and small places, the blurring of identity.

Spencer Gordon

#74. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

Criss Jami

#75. 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

#76. Ms. Scarlett always delivers hot, sexy alphas and this isn't any different. Holy smokes, is this ever HOT! Love her writing and the way she spins a story but adds the HOT factor. Her alphas are phenomenal! - JC

Scarlett Avery

#77. I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies.

Donita K. Paul

#78. I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.

Lisa Gardner

#79. Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily Bronte was not a fulfilled woman but the passion she felt went into Wuthering Heights.

Charlotte Bingham

#80. I heart my job. I get to make things up for a living.

Michelle M. Pillow

#81. i write
because

it is
the only way

i can
reach you.

Sanober Khan

#82. Don't be jealous, be agressive. Make 2012 yours!

Rachel Firasek

#83. That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

Tom Rachman

#84. The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

Emil Ludwig

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

Albert Einstein

#86. Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

Simon Van Booy

#87. I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.

Chuck Palahniuk

#88. You ask me why I write. You might as well ask me why I breathe. I need oxygen to feed my body and ink to feed my soul.

Bryce Main

#89. Have you thrown 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' at her yet?

Elle Lothlorien

#90. If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I've had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick.

Ruth Glick

#91. I'm writing this because you begged. You know how I love the begging

C.J. Roberts

#92. In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be.

Diana Peterfreund

#93. I've written 26 books and novellas as Molly O'Keefe. I moved through three different Harlequin lines and into single-title romance with Bantam writing under that name. Fun fact: It's not my name, and it's not even one I picked.

Molly O'Keefe

#94. You can't write any form of fiction unless you enjoy reading it. You must be sincere in your approach. It's no good despising the form. So many people think they could earn some money from writing something for which they have no affection. It won't work. The first thing you have to have is belief.

Charlotte Bingham

#95. I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point.

Joanna Penn

#96. Honestly...this is why I write.
I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.
I write for my sanity.

Debora Dennis

#97. You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better

Mary Papas

#98. I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

Patton Oswalt

#99. 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

#100. There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.

Liz Brixius