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“Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.”

Matter Stories Romance Life Is Novel Melancholy

Book:He Knew He was Right

Source: He Knew He was Right

“If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.”

Ifs Trying Stories Romance Force Straight Up

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.”

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Author:Jayne Ann Krentz

“By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision”

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Author:Hugo Gernsback

“Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.”

Stories Romance Views Records Talent New York Deserve Absurd Shaking Melodrama Scott Fitzgerald

Author:L.P. Hartley

“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

“There's no good story without romance.”

Love Stories Romance Good Story Romance Love

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes”

Book Stories Romance Mother Costumes Avid Place And Time Faraway Places

Author:Adriana Trigiani

“Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.”

Stories Romance Died Juliet

Author:James Nicoll

“My stories are known for featuring fun, fearless Cosmopolitan-type heroines as well as delicious, dangerous heroes synonymous with Harlequin. Afterburn and Aftershock will be no exception. I'm excited to share these sizzling new romances with readers and to do so hand in hand with Harlequin and Cosmopolitan, beloved brands known for giving women exactly what they want.”

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Author:Sylvia Day

“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.”

“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.”

Writing Stories Romance Night Novel Sacrifice Affair Compromise Short Story Cunning One Night One Night Stand

Author:Amos Oz

“The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.”

People Feels Stories Dream Romance Meetings Screens Films And Movies

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.”

Stories Shows Romance Drama Wine Beverages

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman”

Needs Stories Romance

Author:Greta Gerwig

“The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.”

Stories Romance Originals West Magnificent Odyssey Iliad

Book:The English Novel

Source: The English Novel

“Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.”

People Inspirational Ends Stories Romance Young Love Is Concerned Blind Love Story Excitement Finest Altars Glamour Story Writers

Author:Irving Stone

“Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.”

Stories Romance Christianity Mets Philosophical True Story Search For Truth

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.”

Thinking Writing Book Real Character Stories Romance Novel Development Harder Love Story Suspense Character Development Real Character Suspense Novels

Author:Sandra Brown

“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