“Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.” ImportantRomanceEmotion Author:Debbie Macomber
“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.” WorldImportantRomanceGivenNovelContinuityImmuneRomance NovelTokens Author:Neil Gaiman
“When I'm writing, the romance is always the most important thing to me, but I really love adding in slices of real life, and for me that real life always includes animals.” WritingImportantRealRomanceAnimalImportant ThingsReal Life Author:Jill Shalvis
“Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.” GivingImportantUseRomanceMirrorsResponseObjectives Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.” IfsMenImportantProblemRomanceSexDogHe ManEatingHotHungerHungryFancyRestaurantsHot Dog Author:Joan Fontaine
“To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've got to care about the characters. You've got to understand the characters and you've got to be interested. If the characters are interesting, you're half-way home.” IfsThinkingWayImportantCharacterHomeCareRomanceInterestingHalfComedyImportant ThingsMy WaySuperheroWay Of ThinkingWay HomeHalf Way Author:Stan Lee
“I always just loved women, but more important than loving women, more important than sexual stuff, is I always believed in romance.” ImportantRomanceStuffAlways BelieveLoving A Woman Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“I think it's necessary when you're dealing with a dark show that has explosion and violence to have defined moments of lightness and humor, even romance. It's important, and it deepens the character, of course.” ThinkingImportantMomentsCharacterShowsRomanceCoursesDarkViolenceDefinedExplosionsLightness Author:Wentworth Miller
“The Thorn and the Blossom isn't just a love story. It's about two people who decide what they actually want to do artistically, despite discouragement. In some ways, that's just as important as the romance.” PeopleWayWantTwoImportantStoriesRomanceLove StoryDespiteDiscouragement Author:Theodora Goss
“We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.” ThinkingHumansImportantRomanceFormLiteratureLove IsNovelAspectHuman LifeExploringRomance NovelTrue Love Is Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'” LooksMayArtImportantEnoughShowsRomanceEssenceEmbraceFoolishVulnerabilityFlawsWillingnessThis Is Me Author:Ashton Kutcher
“It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.” ImportantRomanceLostFunEasyImportant ThingsEverydayPartnersLost LoveEveryday LifeHolding OnEasy To Get Author:Brittany Murphy
“I'd do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries. I've flown to places to surprise people, even if it was just for a day. I think it's so important to keep the romance alive and make sure the fun and spontaneity are there.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantRomanceFunAliveSafeSurpriseBoundariesSpontaneity Author:Brittany Murphy
“I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.” ThinkingWritingTryingDoeImportantCharacterShowsFeelingsTogetherRomanceInfluenceConversationPagesMeetingsAttraction Author:Veronica Roth
“For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.” WantGivingImportantRunningRomanceSportsTalkingWeekMonthsTrainingAspectSticksPaceConsistentlyConsistencyRunnersNovices Author:Frank Shorter
“Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.” ImportantRunningRomanceSportsFocusTaughtReturnFlowKeep GoingRacingRelaxedNever QuitRunning Fast Author:Frank Shorter
“Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.” ImportantRomanceLove IsNiceImportant ThingsLustTemporaryBeing NiceWithout LoveShort LivedLove Lust Author:Danielle Steel
“I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensImportantIdeasRomanceBitsNovelTakenGenerationsSpecialFeministMy GenerationWatsonOverpoweringAnything And Everything Author:Emma Watson
“Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a lot longer than romance. You can fall out of love, as well in. Most of us do, especially if you don’t actually like the person as well. It doesn’t always grow into love by any means, but sometimes it does.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsKindMeanPersonsDoeImportantSometimesLastsRomanceFallGrowsPleaseFalling In LoveLoving YouLiking Someone Author:Anne Perry
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” IfsWayInspirationalMindLooksHeartImportantSelfWholeRomanceDiesBornCompanyOur LivesLonelyMagazinesSelf RespectSpiteSomedayHeart And MindBeing SingleAll AloneRespect YourselfSingle GirlTrue RomanceBorn Alone Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.” PeopleFeelsBelieveImportantSometimesFacesRomanceLife IsWorryWonderfulOne DayGainsExcitingBraveFrightenedTransformedApprovalHeartedHaving HopeUnlovedBelieve In LoveHopes And FearsGood Hearted Author:Sophie Kinsella
“In romance or friendship, what's important is how much you love the other person." - Gackt” PersonsImportantRomanceWhat's Important Author:Gackt
“I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.” PeopleNeedsShouldStillsImportantFeelingsRunningRomanceHumanitySidesGoes OnThings To DoCivilizedBrighterGlorifyTime Goes OnDarker SideBetter Things To DoBrighter Side Author:Benjamin Carson
“There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.” LoveImportantRomanceFriendshipDifferencesDemandOppositesDelightExtremesFormerLatterLove And FriendshipFriend Valentine Author:Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
“More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.” ImportantRomanceObjectsMarkDrawing Author:Jim Dine
“Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It's kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. It creates all this beautiful stuff, conversation, appreciation, romance. All the most important things in life you do around a dinner table.” LoveKindImportantBeautifulRomanceStuffConversationUltimateTablesImportant ThingsCookingAppreciationCaringDinnerCooksThings In LifeNurturingDinner TableMost Important Things In Life Author:Curtis Stone
“Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.” LoveLifeLittlesImportantRomanceSexOughtEatingDrinkingSatisfiedAppetiteModestyRestraintGreat SexFalse Modesty Author:Marquis de Sade
“The most important key to a more romantic life: you have to be willing to pay attention” ImportantRomancePayAttentionWillingKeysPay AttentionRomantic Life Author:Thomas Kinkade
“Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away.” MeanImportantRomanceBitsMissingKeysHusbandPartnersYour Husband Author:Tori Amos
“There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.” ImportantRomanceLiteratureLordRingsEpic Author:Kevin J. Anderson
“For me, one of the most important aspects of my work is to give people something to dream about, just as I used to dream all those years ago as a child looking at beautiful photographs. I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world” PeopleWorldGivingYearsChildrenStillsI CanImportantRealDreamInspirationBeautifulRomanceUsedFindingsAspectYears AgoPhotographDigitalDigital World Author:Grace Coddington
“None of the male characters are as powerful or as interesting as the four central female characters. The men work best as representations of the current stage of a particular female’s psyche. The men function as catalysts, and are certainly important to the development of the story, but the relationships are not the goal. I do not see romance as being what’s central to the success of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS.” MenLittlesImportantCharacterStoriesRomanceGoalInterestingPowerfulFourStageParticularHe ManDevelopmentFemaleFunctionMalesCurrentsLiarsRepresentationCatalystFemale Characters Author:Norman Buckley
“The most important thing is you can't write what you wouldn't read for pleasure. It's a mistake to analyze the market thinking you can write whatever is hot. You can't say you're going to write romance when you don't even like it. You need to write what you would read if you expect anybody else to read it.” IfsThinkingNeedsWritingImportantRomancePleasureMistakeHotImportant Things Author:Nora Roberts
“The most important thing for me when I wrote [Origins] was that at the end even if Morrigan loved the player, she had this thing that she believed in, that was so important that she would do it regardless of the player. And I think that a lot of players expected that she would bend herself to do whatever they wanted because they've done the romance, gotten her approval up, and of course she would just sort of follow their destiny. But Morrigan has her own destiny.” IfsThinkingImportantEndsDoneWantedRomanceCoursesDestinyPlayerImportant ThingsExpectedApproval Author:David Gaider
“I have dabbled with action, romance, dance, emotion and comedy. I think I've done well in all. It's important to keep doing something different and reinvent oneself to avoid stagnation from creeping in.” ThinkingWellsImportantDifferentDoneActionRomanceEmotionComedyOneselfStagnation Author:Akshay Kumar
“Never Mind Nirvana is the first novel I’ve read that makes music as important as food, clothing romance — a fresh twist millions will be able to identify with – and the music of Lindquist’s language is a perfect match for the subject. I think he’s the writer to watch in the new millennium.” ThinkingMindFirstsImportantAbleRomanceLanguagePerfectWatchesMillionsNovelSubjectsClothingsTwistsMillenniumPerfect Match Author:Tama Janowitz