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“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.”

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Author:Chow Yun-Fat

“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.”

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Author:Sara Craven

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

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Author:Dorothy Allison

“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.”

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Author:Alessandra Stanley

“For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting.”

Source: On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells

“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.”

“"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.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.”

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Author:Umberto Eco

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.”

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Book:Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels

Source: Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels

“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.”

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Author:Sherman Alexie

“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.”

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Author:Kristin Hannah

“I don't write romance novels.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.”

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Author:Jourdan Dunn

“I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.”

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Author:Lisa Gardner